OK, we DID nearly wreck the car racking up a mammoth 2200km in 2 days, extreme tests of the suspension and a few near misses! I dr0ve too! Mary rented a most massive 4wd SUV automatic - i have never driven any of the above before, especially not on the wrong side of the road. It was pretty nerve-racking at first but fun. I was mad that Mary had rented such a massive car but when it mattered (ie when we hurtled towards oncoming trucks over a very water drenched freeway) it pulled through for us. We made it as far as Prince George and were headed back down when we had our near death experience and exclaimed some pretty hilarious but unrepeatable last words. It was only several hours later when we arrived at our destination for the night (Lillooet, suicide capital of British Columbia) that Mary pondered if we had actually died and been sent to hell. She even spotted a burnt out pickup at the bottom of a cliff! Both Prince George and Lillooet were pretty dire but we saw some amazing scenery on the way, especially the later stretch from Clinton to Whistler. I was mad coz Mary spotted 2 bears whilst i was driving, but my hard work was rewarded with my own sighting later when i spotted some young bear road kill. Not quite as nice as a living breathing one. We saw too many deer to care about and zero moose, despite our pleas with mother nature to trade a few deer sightings for a moose one. We also failed to see the Northern Lights, it just never seemed to get black enough, plus the sky was pretty cloudy. So a full days' driving and staying up til 2am and enduring the horror of having a bat fly past my face all came to nowt. But the sky still looked pretty gorgeous anyway and it was a road trip well worth doing as i hadn't laughed so hard in ages.