June, 2022
Here’s my last full day at Birch Bay. Today I drove east, just a few miles, not far. Instead of water, I was looking for country, cows, horses, farms, crops. And boy did I find them. It’s beautiful up here in this corner of the state. I took my time, and took the least traveled roads, and drove slowly.
Oh, did I mention I was looking for barns too? 🙂
And crops. There will be photos of crops in this blog post where I don’t know what the crops are (like the crop in the photo below). If any of you Readers know what any of the crops are, please chime in and let me and everyone else know.
Cattle. Cows.
And then around another corner in the road, I came to that same fence-less boundary between Canada and the USA. This was about 13 miles east of the Peace Arch.
In the very next moment, a red pickup truck zoomed past on the Canadian side of the border, on the Canadian road. And yes that red pickup truck had Canadian plates on it.
So, let’s follow that road and see where it goes. I’m heading west now, on that road, in the USA, with the Canadian road to my right. The ditch in between the two roads is the border between the two countries. Not a fence in sight!
Eventually, the road ended in a wide turn-around area (below). The east-west road I was on ends because the north-south road in front of me is Meridian … this is the Meridian border crossing that Readers Jim/Janey mentioned recently that they sometimes use. I’d not been here before, but I can see why it might be an attractive border crossing … it’s small and not many vehicles come through here so it’s probably a relatively fast/easy border crossing. It’s smaller than the border crossing at Sumas (further to the east) where I have crossed a number of times when driving to Escape Trailer Industries in Chilliwack, BC, when I was buying my Escape (ETI) trailer.
I made the u-turn turn-around and headed back east along the USA road along the border.
Below is is a large, old, comfortable barn in Canada that had been re-roofed not long ago with a metal roof.
Photo below — here’s one of the places that seems purposely made for people to walk across the border.
Further east … another barn in Canada.
Around another corner in the road … horses (and birds) in the USA.
It was interesting that they used old milk cartons to protect the new plants. What are these plants?
In the photos below, I loved the massive, lush, green fields of crops. I also loved the mountains in the distance, the Cascade Mountains. On a clear day, they would be stunning.
“23” seemed such an impersonal name, for such a beautiful person. 🙂
Ah a fence!! The first fence I have seen along the border in two or three days. But it sure wouldn’t prevent a human from crossing over. Maybe it was more for the cows. 🙂
Above … bees, necessary for pollination of all manner of crops.
One cow above, and dozens of goats in the distance.
And then, sigh, it was time to head back to my trailer for my last evening and night here.
I drove into the campground, parked the big white truck next to Towhee the Trailer in my campsite, then walked through the campground one last time.
Walking up one roadway inside the campground, I could see my truck and trailer in the distance (photos below).
And again, the tree beside me … !!
I find six faces, six little (or big!) creatures there.
I liked all of them. And they kept me safe all night long.
In the morning, I hitched up and headed home, happy.