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After stopping for gas in Lillooet, I headed up British Columbia Highway 99 heading south toward Vancouver. Along the way, I stopped off at Seton Lake to take in the view. BC Hydro has a lot of projects out here to keep the power flowing to Canada’s western cities.
I motored along British Columbia Highway 12 between the Trans Canada Highway and Lillooet before breakfast. This is an entertaining piece of asphalt to ride a motorcycle on and was only completed in 1953. Even this close to Vancouver, this part of British Columbia was pretty wild not that long ago.
Down below the highway is the Fraser River. That river was running cold and gray while I rode along it.
After a great ride through southern British Columbia, I stopped for the night at a little free campground in the community of Spences Bridge along the Thompson River. The Trans Canada Highway cuts through this river gorge as does the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Westbound trains go down the river on the opposite bank while eastbound trains rumble up the river on the side of the bank I camped on.
It was a little dicey getting through sand and very deep, very loose gravel to this campsite.
Down on the gravel bar on the Thompson River.
Looking downriver toward where the majority of the town of Spences Bridge is located.
This is a video of a huge Canadian Pacific Railway freight train rumbling down the river toward Vancouver. It was over four minutes long and the train most certainly wasn’t moving slowly.
Just above my campsite and on the other side of the highway is the eastbound railroad tracks. Every 15 to 30 minutes all night long a big train like this one would rumble by. For a train aficionado, this was an EXCELLENT place to spend the night.