Back to the trip - May 23

Finally !
Wed May 23rd

We are back on the road.  4 lost days in Dawson Creek BC over their "Victoria Day" 3 day weekend.   On Sat a repair garage replaced the front seal on the tranny.   We drove 50 miles to Fort St John and discovered that the tranny was still leaking.   Special type of tranny fluid which was not available anywhere.

So we went to church Sun in Fort St John, BC.  Met some nice people and got invited to dinner Sun afternoon with a family.   And an invite to "tea" for Victoria day.   And because nothing was open Monday, we joined the family again and helped them put in garden boxes and weed.   It was something to do !  We enjoyed the work and getting to know more about NE BC.

In the afternoon, we went to "tea".   More nice and interesting folks.    I would not like to winter there, but great people.

On Tues. AM a transmission shop was open to check us out.    Turns out the welds on the torque converter were leaking, and getting worse.   They ordered the new part.  Since we had the to kill, we rented a car and drove to Hudson's Hope (a town) to see the Bennett Dam.   Largest earth dam in North America.   Our luck is not very good.   The dam is closed on Tuesdays.   We still got a look at the outside, just not the inside.

The parts came in Wed. morning, were added to the tranny, reinstalled, and we were finally on our way.

The tranny shop guys are all oval track racers, so we had a bunch to talk about.