Well waking up in the lower 48 feels like we are home! Don’t get me wrong, Canadians are very nice……no frownie clerk, sour puss face of not liking their job………yea I see that here at home…….But shopping at a store soon after we crossed the border was a comforting feeling, products looked familiar prices were normal, I didn’t have to calculate in my mind the difference in the price of their dollar/ours.
Cliff and I noticed in northern B.C. there weren’t any birds around at our camp spots…..not even in town at Stewart, AL. And now here in northern Washington there still isn’t many birds flittering around. Two woodpeckers showed up working on a nearby tree. Nothing deterred them from pecking away and tearing off stuff from a dead tree. I have to get out my bird book because they look like a kingfisher with the same coloring, but they had white spots under their wings.
We were overwhelmed with the scenery on our trip the whole time!!! Someone wrote in a tourist book about driving the Alcan hwy. and they said the ‘top of the world’ road was blah…boring….. no not to us. South of Grand Prairie the trucking on the road was very, very busy, and the scenery was a bit industrialized but that didn’t last long. Getting back into the fast world Friday when we got closer and closer to Prince George was a bit of a reality check….and a big one when we hit Komloops and Kowlena in southern B.C. whoa they need to coordinate their lights in that town…from when we started into that town on the northern end and by the time we were out of the town limits 1 1/2hrs. YES, they had a stop light at every block and when ours turned green and you got to the next one it was turning red………only twice did we get through the next light before it turned…..Cliff kept his cool, well there was no tedious technical driving involved, just straight through driving but his knee was very sore from clutching. we don’t have an automatic truck, but our next one is going to be. And that decision was made long before this trip……..
Oh Canada had signs along the road esp. on our return route, that stated when this forest was prepped, mulched, and planted, whether it was from a forest fire they replanted, or from the logging up here, they are taking care of their forest….Another thing at our (and only a few at that) stop for lunch at a A&W they had a poster that said “good food makes good food” it was about how their beef doesn’t have hormones….etc….
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Oh so our alternate route because of the fires was an awesome road, and the scenery didn’t disappoint either, we saw a sign at their information center ( we call them visitor centers) evacuee station b/c of the fire, but we didn’t want to camp in their parking lot, but we decided to camp in a parking lot of this rest area just a tad up the road……ha go figure, guess it was better because it had trees ahahahaha first day we had driven over 10 hours, it had been 12.5 hr. this day Thursday the 20th., we were on a mission to get back, but Oakley and Henri had a ball running around, Cliff decided to not put them on the leash and they ran in circles, growl at each other chase each other, FREEDOMMMMMMMM they were saying I bet!!!!! J Oh there happened to be two other campers there and when we woke up four more came in after us, safety in numbers esp. when your breadking the rules, but we all guessed that it was fine because of the closure of 97!! and all us campers needed a place to park for the night.
The mosquitoes were bad, they were really bad in northern B.C. Alaska I bet I didn’t have 10 on me the whole time we were up there. Here in Washington they are normal and its dry here……
Now in Seattle none!!!! Temperature is lovely, and if it wasn’t so so expensive I could live here. Think it will be a wonderful place to come tour soon!!
We thought Denver was big…….ha
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I’m going to miss all your travel log and photos when you get home. Almost feel like I got to Alaska too! Safe travels home.
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