Jillian & Amber and the Red Laurentian

The men awoke to a car alarm going off in the hotel parking lot at 6 am and couldn't get back to sleep so it was into the shower and breakfast. Rich walked down the street to get a picture of the giant Bee statue that he thought was a mosquito. The hotel owner's wife showed up and took them to the airport. She scared them with her driving and they were glad to get out of the car especially since she didn't speak english. They departed Donnellson for Fort St. John at 9:35 am and the ceilings were low for a while but cleared up pretty quickly. On approach to St. John they lost radio contact with the tower so landed anyway. Rich finally got the frequency problems cleared up and apologized to the tower to which they could have cared less.
At Ft. Saint John the fellas went to North Cariboo Air where a local pilot Bob Fedderly warmly greeted them. Bob introduced Rich to Randy Gee who owns North Cariboo Air and the two guys commenced to fill him in on the local scoop on how to fly the next two legs of the trip. Bob owns Fedderly Transportation LTD. and services the oil field, etc. They showed Rich all the landing strips and which route was best, etc. Thanks Bob and Randy for the great Canadian pilot tips!
May you always have a tailwind!
Off Fort Saint John for Fort Nelson the guy were only 20 miles out when they spied two black bear about a 1/4 apart. They are really starting to feel like this is wilderness. After 2.4 hours the men reached Ft. Nelson and were greeted on the ramp by Jillian the linelady who promptly filled up the plane and showed the guys where to tie down for the night. It turns out Jillian's uncle owns Skynorth Av Fuels and has he really got a great neice working for him. Jillian gave the guys a car for the night, a 1975 Pontiac "Laurentian" (this is an actual real model of Pontiac which neither of the guys had ever heard of). Big sweeping body lines and bright solid red, they boys jumped in and she wouldn't start, dead battery! Jillian hollers "Amber!" and Amber appears and begins to help clean the cables and fill the battery water and hook up the charger. Now this gal is talented. Not quite 21, she drives a 1969 GMC to work, which she maintains herself, has a bulldozer of her own which her grandma gave her. She also has 6 horses, one of which is a Percheron stallion which she breeds to her Quarter horse mares to develope pack horses. Rich asked her who taught her all the mechanical things and she poudly replied, "My Grandma!" Wow! these British Columbians are something!
With bags loaded into the red "Laurentian" the guys headed off to downtown Ft. Nelson to get a motel. Jillian had already called all the motels and located the most reasonable one available. How's that for line service! What a sweet gal!! and pretty too! Thanks Jillian and Amber!! With a belly full of Chinese food the men have settled in for the night at the Blue Bell Motel.