Jul 12 – Well, we made it through another week in Canada eh? Val says I have a thing for picking up local languages when we travel but I don’t know what she’s talking aboot but I guess we’re all entitled to our own opinions, eh?
We decided to take a different route than we took going up. Well at least not all the same roads. When there are four highways in the state / province you don’t have a lot of choices. The one we took was not the best. The first 100 or so miles were narrow gravel roads with no lines and steep shoulders that dropped off 2-3 feet. Then they turned to paved roads. Then they got a little wider. Then they got lines. And, after about 250 miles they seemed a lot like normal roads except for the rough spots.
Let’s talk about roads for a minute. For those of you that think you have bad roads in your area; you ain’t seen nothing. Drive to the Yukon sometime; that’ll show you bad roads. They have it all; huge and long ruts, raised up areas (all of a sudden like) large cracks, holes, gravel and dusty. Let’s see; did I leave anything out? It’s really hard to make good time when you have to keep slowing down for that crap.
And did I mention gas prices? We paid $1.23 per liter a couple of days ago. That’s $5 a gallon. Ouch! So don’t complain about the two something you’re currently paying. It could be worse.
Val has been looking for moose but not seen one in about a week; except for the images on the signs telling us to watch out for moose. She had hoped to see more. We did see several black bears as we drove south through British Columbia. We saw a mother with a small cub coming out of the heavy brush. When she saw the motorhome she turned around and went back in. I don’t blame her; I wouldn’t want any of my kids around one of these either.
No photos this time. Not much to add that you haven't already seen except an exceptionally dirty motorhome and Maggies SUV. Boy were they dirty. Both were covered with thick mud. Got to love those muddy highways!
To sum up our trip up north to Alaska; it was nice but we’re glad to be back.
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