Well, were do we start?
“At the beginning, would be a good place”, “oh, ok”

We set off for Whistler, via a small town called Squamish, on a bright sunny day, with fantastic views all around us as the West side of Canada certainly has some beautiful countryside.

The trip took us North, up past Vancouver and up the pacific rim of British Columbia.

Eventually arriving at the Whistler RV Park, where we parked the RV, facing some of the most stunning views, we had ever seen on any RV Park anywhere in the world we have travelled

The next day, Saturday the 1st of July, was Canada Day, celebrating 150 years since the nation was formed, so off we went to Whistler town centre (a few miles up the road), to see what was happening.

As you would expect, the place was buzzing, with crowds of people and musicians and bands everywhere you turned.

There was a great atmosphere and everyone was enjoying themselves.

This place (Whistler), looks a great place to come for a holiday, whether it is summer or winter, as there seems to be lots of activities, bars and restaurants all around the town.

Although, Bears are supposed to be common around here, with warning signs all around, during the 3 days we were here, we didn’t see one – grrr.

Ok, ready to move on, the RV packed, the car hitched and the GPS set, unfortunately, the Driver in his wisdom, decided that the GPS route was 100 miles too long and he could see a quicker route on the map, over the mountains to our next destination, a town called Clearwater.

So off we went, on the ‘shorter’ route – what a mistake that was!!!!!

There were very long mountains to climb, very deep valleys to descend into, both of which made our poor RV rev and whine, but we needn’t have worried as the RV was well up to the job we gave it.

Although some of the bends we had to take and some of the very narrow roads we had to negotiate, meant that we only averaged about 25 mph for the first 150 miles or so.

So, all in all, the 100 mile longer trip would have been considerably shorter in time and fuel costs, if we had taken it – grrr.

But make it we did and pulled into another very nice RV Park, on the shores of Dutch Lake, with its crystal clear waters and nice views from our site

Now, why the title?

Well, the ‘Good’, was all the fantastic scenery, the atmosphere and the friendliness of the people we met in Whistler.

The ‘Bad’, was the crazy driving we had to do, up over the Rockies, because we knew ‘better’ that the GPS, where the hairy driving conditions, made the mountain driving we did around Yosemite and Sequoia in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, seem like a children’s playground.

What about ‘Ugly’?  – Well the ugly part, is when we got to Clearwater, although we had insect repellent on, we still got bitten to death with the pesky, ugly little critters!!

Still, all’s well that ends well and we didn’t actually get ‘bitten to death’, otherwise we wouldn’t be writing this blog!

Ok, that’s enough for now, more next time.