I am currently visiting relatives in a Dawson Creek in British Columbia in Canada.
This has nothing to do with the USA television series.
Dawson Creek is situated 55N 120W on the eastern foothills of the Canadian Rockies about 660M above sea level, (Isn't Google earth wonderful?) and 620Km from Edmonton in Alberta. DC is the official start of the Alaska Highway, which was a joint project between the US & Canadian forces during the Second World War to build a supply route to a US base in Fairbanks, Alaska as a strategic platform from which to monitor the actions of the Eastern Block alliance.
The weather in DC has wide extremes ranging from -45C in winter to +40C in summer, more typically -10 to +30, but snow can lie from between September through to May. The big difference though is that the humidity is generally quite low, so even these extremes whilst severe are more manageable than the UK's moderate temperatures.
I was last here in 1994 and a lot has changed. The city has grown due to the exploitation of oil fields, and the increase in tourism. But my reason for writing all this to the caravan forum is the size and styles of caravans, trailers and RV's. A surprising number of households have then.
There are what we would call caravans which can be towed by family cars and these are quite small, but the trailers can be massive, 35ft trailers are not uncommon, and they can weight up to 5Tonnes. Most are what we would call 5th wheel units and are towed by the pick up trucks. Bang goes the 85% guide line. RV's can also be large, but we do see some of these on UK roads.
It is my personal view that most of these units are ugly. They look as though they are constructed from corrugated iron, and perched on the top of an agricultural flat bed Trailer It reminds me of the properties built by the UK architect Pugin, who built the walls of his houses around the spaces he wanted inside regardless of what it looked like from the outside, hence the number of his of strangely shaped but beautiful buildings.
The need to tow large trailers is one of the reasons that most households have big pick up truck, but also the winter conditions here do need the 4x4 abilities of these vehicles.
Incidentally, whilst I was flying, I was wondering about the relative fuel efficiency of using an aircraft, and thus the emissions etc. It may surprise you to know that a Boeing 767-300 carries about 210 people and can fly 10500Km using 90500 liters of fuel. If the same number of people made the same journey by car (Three people to a car averaging 30mpg) they would use 111300L of fuel or 23% more fuel. Perhaps Air flights are not as anti social as the Greenhouse gas brigade make out.
Enjoy your own Holidays John L
This has nothing to do with the USA television series.
Dawson Creek is situated 55N 120W on the eastern foothills of the Canadian Rockies about 660M above sea level, (Isn't Google earth wonderful?) and 620Km from Edmonton in Alberta. DC is the official start of the Alaska Highway, which was a joint project between the US & Canadian forces during the Second World War to build a supply route to a US base in Fairbanks, Alaska as a strategic platform from which to monitor the actions of the Eastern Block alliance.
The weather in DC has wide extremes ranging from -45C in winter to +40C in summer, more typically -10 to +30, but snow can lie from between September through to May. The big difference though is that the humidity is generally quite low, so even these extremes whilst severe are more manageable than the UK's moderate temperatures.
I was last here in 1994 and a lot has changed. The city has grown due to the exploitation of oil fields, and the increase in tourism. But my reason for writing all this to the caravan forum is the size and styles of caravans, trailers and RV's. A surprising number of households have then.
There are what we would call caravans which can be towed by family cars and these are quite small, but the trailers can be massive, 35ft trailers are not uncommon, and they can weight up to 5Tonnes. Most are what we would call 5th wheel units and are towed by the pick up trucks. Bang goes the 85% guide line. RV's can also be large, but we do see some of these on UK roads.
It is my personal view that most of these units are ugly. They look as though they are constructed from corrugated iron, and perched on the top of an agricultural flat bed Trailer It reminds me of the properties built by the UK architect Pugin, who built the walls of his houses around the spaces he wanted inside regardless of what it looked like from the outside, hence the number of his of strangely shaped but beautiful buildings.
The need to tow large trailers is one of the reasons that most households have big pick up truck, but also the winter conditions here do need the 4x4 abilities of these vehicles.
Incidentally, whilst I was flying, I was wondering about the relative fuel efficiency of using an aircraft, and thus the emissions etc. It may surprise you to know that a Boeing 767-300 carries about 210 people and can fly 10500Km using 90500 liters of fuel. If the same number of people made the same journey by car (Three people to a car averaging 30mpg) they would use 111300L of fuel or 23% more fuel. Perhaps Air flights are not as anti social as the Greenhouse gas brigade make out.
Enjoy your own Holidays John L
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