On The Road Again

"On the road again Daddy's singing like a toad again" To quote our eldest child, when ever we hit the road I would sing the first line and she would take over and sing the rest. We must thank David Hahn and the BC Liberals for raising the ferry rates to the point where no one wants to pay the price. At the end of our last leg we pulled up to the ferries on a Friday evening at 5:55 and we were on the 6:00 and the ferry was not full. They had me park at the back of the ferry because they needed the weight at the back of the boat. Of course this all comes at a price - we are now paying 2.5 times what we used to a little more than 10 years ago and 10 times what it costs to get on and off PEI for a similar lenght ferry trip. Today we got to the ferry at noon and at that point the 1:00 was only 40% full. We had a great drive down the freeway to Chilliwack with Mt Baker to the south and the coast mountains and their snow covered peaks to the north and east. Our stay here will be short as we are off to the interior tomorrow.