Originally Posted by mach4

Today was a day to head out from Vancouver to Whistler. The drive is absolutely spectacular as the following couple of pictures show.








Above is a YouTube video from the dash cam - Squamish - YouTube

Here's a couple of shots of the SL along the coast road.





Unfortunately we didn't make it past Squamish...

Going through town, I noticed a Canadian Tire store. Having heard a lot about this store on the forums, I decided it would be a mistake to not make a stop and see what the interest is all about. It is indeed a fascinating store.

Unfortunately when I returned to the car there wasn't enough juice in the battery to start the engine. It was indeed fortuitous that I chose too make the stop at Canadian Tire. They were able to determine that the battery was OK and gave it a full charge. We were unfortunately unable to do an alternator test. So looks like I'll be heading back to San Diego without a charging system. I'm not convinced the alternator is bad and I don't have the tools or diagrams available to troubleshoot/fix on the road.

...so that also means that the trip back on 101 is out of the question at this point.