CANADA – Merritt

August 2 Thursday Woke up to another beautiful day and started our drive from Prince George on Rt. 97 in British Columbia. We had only driven about 45 minutes when our travel was abruptly interrupted. We were traveling about 65 mph on a two lane highway and a pick up truck was traveling in the oncoming lane...as he passed us a 4X8 sheet of plywood flew out of his truck and hit us hard on our left front side right under the windshield. It made a terrible noise, like a shotgun blast, and we pulled off the road. The headlight assembly was completely smashed out onto the road, the fog lights were dangling, and the left front and side were damaged. Gary cut off the dangling fog lights and duct taped the left front turning signal as best as he could...it still worked and after our initial shock we headed to the next town, Quesnel, to report the accident. We don't think the truck driver even realized that he had lost that sheet of plywood. We had a lot to be thankful for...the RV seemed mechanically fine and we weren't hurt. We called our insurance company after we had the police report and continued on our journey after a delay of about 1.5 hours. I have to admit that we both were shaken up a bit. We had hoped to make it to Hope, British Columbia but only made it to Merritt, which is about an hour and half above Hope. Merritt is the country music capital of Canada! But, we didn't do any sightseeing here. We found a nice campground called Moon Shadows and settled in for the night.

RV at the Bee Lazee RV Park

RV after being hit by the plywood

Damaged :(   At least the duct tape matches our color scheme