Cassiar highway

The Cassiar Highway rocks! First time i have driven it - what an adventure it is with its twists & turns, stomach dropping hills, lack of shoulders & steep drops. You never knew what was around the next bend! The remoteness and awesome scenery made it such an interesting drive. Yesterday we took a detour from our route and drove to Stewart BC & Hyder AK. The first time down the road to Stewart was quite anxiety producing with its narrowness, curves, avalanche warnings every several miles, remments of big slides, fog and lots of snow on the sides. Stewart is a coastal town, misty and rainy, 36 miles from the main road. Reminded us both of Valdez with all their snow (make anchorages snowfall seem small) and Seward but smaller without the fishing. It is an old town with many buildings still standing from the 1800s. We stayed in this grt Inn with an incredible view of the estuary from our room and a sitting room with an even larger view with a gas fireplace to warm it up. Sipping champgne in the sitting room felt very decadent. We took a bike ride in the mist to stretch our legs and see the town, afterwards we took advantage of their dry sauna to vwarm up. All in all we felt like we were on a plush vacation - doesn't take a lot for us to feel that way!!!! Hyder is just 2 miles down the road from Stewart. Now Hyder on the other hand to be perfectly blunt was a dump. Stewart's roads were paved, but as soon as u cross the boarder, muddy with giant potholes. The houses looked like they were falling apart and pieced together. Not sure what Keeps hyder going, it felt like being on the other side of the tracks. Today we made it to Prince George; as the drive progressed i realized we were leaving the long stretches between communities and sparse cars on the roadway and are now back in the mainstream - cars passing and driving through communities every 30-40 miles. I will miss the peacefulness of having the road to ourselves, but every mile we are nearer to warmer temperatures and getting away from the snow!!! If u see any misspelling or puncuation errors plz feel free to correct in your head, we want to have fun writing and not worrying about the small things!