Prince George

Last night we arrived in Prince George and called a gentleman called Bob Greenaway who is the executive director of Youth for christ and we were given his name to contact whilst we were in Williams lake youth club.
Bob met us in a diner motel called the Carmel and it felt really cold and it was really nice to get inside, Chris and i didn’t order food till Bob arrived as we wanted to chat to him about what we were doing for Streetkids, Bob arrived and told us how he was known in the area as “uncle Bob” he loved our mission and told us that he would buy us supper and would put us up in the hotel for the first night in town, this was really welcome as with the colder temperature now its not much fun for Chris in the front seat.
Thank you to Bob Greenaway from youth for christ for providing this very kind gesture to keep us going.
I had a lovely soak in a hot bath and chris called his girlfriend and when her granny answered she didn’t let him speak to her at first but when he said he was near to Alaska she put him through, they had a productive chat and he is settled knowing she is ok.
In the morning we drove over to Northern Toyota to meet up with Christopher Castelli who had let us arrange a press meeting at the dealership we set up camp to show off the expedition concept to two newspapers the www.pgfreepress.com who had sent a really friendly photographer called John McKenzie and we also had a reporter from the www.princegeorgecitizen.com Mr Scott Stanfield.
Northern Toyota’s Chris Castelli told us that his daughter Ivy worked for a street youth project and we may be able to visit the project center and gave us her number.
We cannot express enough thanks for Chris allowing us to fill our vehicle with diesel on the Northern Toyota account.
Thanks to www.northerntoyota.ca for sponsoring us.
We packed up at Toyota and drove to Future Cents which is the youth facility that Ivy Janot works with. here we set up camp again and spoke to a group of 14 Kids who really engaged into what we were doing and after showing them an outside demonstration we al talked about how kids live in different parts of the world and they shared with us about how they live.
Thank you to all of you at Future Cents we really had some fun and thank you for the accommodation contact. www.futurecents.ca
We were really tired now and looking forward to meeting our Coach surfing hosts who advertise free accommodation on the infamous web based travel site, Pat and Keith live just up out of town and have a wonderful home and family Keith is an art teacher and his wife teaches english and french, they have lived in France too and you can sense that they have lived in Europe with wonderfully decorated vibrant colors in their home and Keith's artwork.
Pat cooked a really tasty roast beef and we had wine and cheese and for the first time in six months i felt that i was at home. Their son in law dave also drives the same landcruiser as me and came over to look at my vehicle, we have been made really welcome and hope to stay one more night before leaving to go north.
Huge hug and thank you to you both Pat and Keith from Prince George from the www.couchsurfing.com