Cooling it at Mile Zero

After 8 days on the road (1,671 miles from the cabin) we have just arrived in Dawson Creek, British Columbia at the closest end of the Alaska (formerly Alcan) Highway. This puts us a little over halfway to Tok, AK which is the first good sized town into Alaska (and where we plan to get our mail late next week).

We expect the roads to get narrower, slower, and rougher so we are planning more days and shorter drives per day until Tok. There will also be lots more touristy things to see, and more wildlife too. This beaver doesn't move around at all:

Western Alberta has a lot of forest cover and became rolling hills, but still no mountains in sight. Just playing with map coordinates, I see that we are West of Los Angeles, and farther North than most of Europe.


Bob is just now getting over a summer cold, but it hit Paige pretty hard yesterday and today, so this is another reason to slow down and shake it off.