Canada Day came and went too quickly. Since it fell on a Thursday I decided to take Friday off to give myself an extended long weekend. It was one of the best decisions I’ve made in a while. A 3 day work week is very nice! I spent the Friday in town enjoying the Canada Day celebration. It was really neat seeing the Olympic caldron lit up again. It was not the Olympics but the happy atmosphere around Canada Place was hard not to notice.
The plan for the rest of the long weekend was to drive down to the US on Friday, check out Chaukanut Drive and camp at Deception Pass state park. However the hour long border lineup and the long US customs office lineup meant we didn’t cross the US until well past 2 pm. I was glad to use the truck border cross instead of the Peace Arch border cross as the Peace Arch cross was backed up all the way to the last Highway 99 exit. The worst border lineup I’ve ever seen!
Chaukanut Drive was very pleasant and the views were stunning. Deception Pass was just as stunning. Unfortunately since we arrived at the park just before dust on a long weekend without any reservation meant we had no camping spot. So instead of camping we decided to drive back to Vancouver, since we weren’t too far from the border anyway. I’ll definitely have to go back to Deception Pass sometime this summer and camp there.
