We are in Dawson Creek, British Columbia at the southern end of the Alaskan Highway. This is the official Mile Zero. We are just catching upon stuff today – minor repairs, laundry, car washing, bug-on-windshield removal and exciting stuff like that. We will start moving north tomorrow or perhaps the next day. There is a museum we want to see, as well as a pioneer village, with lots of information on the local agriculture.
The trip up here was interesting. We went over prairie in Montana and southern Alberta, with the Rocky Mountains off on the west often showing up. One night we stayed at an awful campground outside of Calgary with the fanciful name of “Whispering Spruce’. The campground was crowded with older trailers and motor homes of semi-permanent residents, with not a tree in sight --- no spruce to whisper to.
As we continued north, the landscape stayed mostly flat, but instead of prairie, became heavily forested with spruce, white birches, alders and poplar trees. Dawson Creek is a little more open and seems to be an agricultural area with many farms.
As we get farther north, the nights become shorter.—about five to six hours.
We are having lots of fun. We are meeting lots of people like us on the same type of trip. Of course, as always, every one has a story to tell.
The trip up here was interesting. We went over prairie in Montana and southern Alberta, with the Rocky Mountains off on the west often showing up. One night we stayed at an awful campground outside of Calgary with the fanciful name of “Whispering Spruce’. The campground was crowded with older trailers and motor homes of semi-permanent residents, with not a tree in sight --- no spruce to whisper to.
As we continued north, the landscape stayed mostly flat, but instead of prairie, became heavily forested with spruce, white birches, alders and poplar trees. Dawson Creek is a little more open and seems to be an agricultural area with many farms.
As we get farther north, the nights become shorter.—about five to six hours.
We are having lots of fun. We are meeting lots of people like us on the same type of trip. Of course, as always, every one has a story to tell.
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