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Dawson Creek is the official start of the Alaska Highway and the official beginning of our end. I was lucky enough to find a thrift store in Dawson Creek and was able to buy a bread machine which I have been wanting ever since we stayed at the sheep farm and Dave feed us [...]
We camped at Whistlers Campground in Jasper National Park. This is a larger and more primitive park than Banff and the town, which is in the park, is smaller than Banff townsite as well. Thus, the signage isn’t so good.
Our first full day we took a hike to the Valley of the Five Lakes. Except [...]
The road to Jasper is called the Icefield Parkway and we had no idea what we were getting into. Glacier National Park is named for Glaciers, right? But we didn’t see any of aby size. Here all we saw were snow covered peaks, icefields and glacier after glacier. Again, our rain luck held out, and [...]
Every few minutes as we drove to Banff National park David and I said, “Wow! This is really stupendous. Look over there. That is even more stupendous.” Of course, we were talking about the Canadian Rockies. Even the cows that crossed in front of us on the road had horns that seemed stupendous. Sometimes we [...]
Our first day we went into Cochrane Alberta, Canada, a lovely little tourist town, where we tried and tried to use the internet without much luck. We were successful, however, in renting our new house in Alaska, 3477 Buffalo Lane, Fairbanks, AK 99710. Don’t send any mail and don’t make plans to visit yet. We [...]
We decided not to rush to Glacier to get a campsite. So we stayed one night in Lolo National Forest, near Glacier, in a site right off the access road. Not really great, but a nice hike to a lake at the end of the road.
However, the next day we went to Glacier National Park, [...]
Once again the Badlands eluded us. We were just too tired and decided to spend the day beside a lake in Bear Butte State Park, have dinner in Rapid City and then retire to the luxury of the Tire Barn for TV (Wizard of OZ), a hair wash in the bathroom sink and the relative [...]