Days 2 & 3 May 24 & 25, 2006

Left LacLaHache at 7:50 am - overcast & cool. The owners wouldn't allow us to connect to the internet again unless we paid $5.00. Figured it wasn't worth it. Lots of lakes and rivers on the whole trip. Not much agriculture except cattle so lots of pastures and hay.
Wuesnel - lots of saw mills, Canadian Tire, WalMart, Century 21 - CIVILATION!!! Stopped at Bijoux Falls for lunch. A lot of water coming down. Will add picture when I can. Arrived at Dawson Creek at 4:45. No internet working there either. This picture at left is of mile zero on the Alaska Highway.

Thursday - Went out for Horton donuts for breakfast. Our camping neighbors from Campbell River, B.C. said we were officially honorary Canadians if we start out the morning at Hortons. Got on the road at 7:45 in the rain. Stopped at Pink Mountain for lunch and hooked up to the restaurant's computer, so didn't get a chance to post then. Long drive just the road going and going through trees - but they cut back the sides for about 50 feet so you don't feel closed in and the animals cannot jump right out in front of us. As we get farther north, there are more gravel patches in the road. Our whole rig is totally muddy!!! There are natural gas wells everywhere, but all we saw are ocassionally installations and see swaths cut through the trees to run the pipes out to the highway to hook up to the mainline pipes. At 1 pm we passed a sign that said "Welcome to the Northern Rockies." Gas is now at $1.24.9 per liter or about $5 per gallon. We got some sun today. The trees are mostly decidious but the evergreens are about 20 years old, very skinny and only about 15 to 25 feet high. Guess the growing season is short!! We got to Fort Nelson at 2:30 and will stay here and on to Liard Hot Springs tomorrow.

Wild animal count - two black bears, four deer - no pictures - yet!!!

Forgive my spelling as I am being rushed and this doesn't have spell check!!