We've made it to Mile 0 on the Alaskan Highway! and will be off in a few minutes.
But the trip getting here has been wonderful. After leaving Drumheller, we made a long drive up to the northwoods of Lesser Slave Lake and camped for two nights in one of Alberta's great provincial parks set in the boreal forest on the shore of an absolutely huge lake...about 74 miles long. Mostly families and fishermen in the other sites but lots of space in betwee. For the first time we really felt like we were on vacation complete with campfires morning and night. Of course, night doesn't really start until about 10 PM!
We've found Canadians to be very generous and so pleasant...two stories: 1) yesterday we were looking for diesel, one station was closed due to a power shortage so we drove into UFA which turns out to be commercial and members only! Two guys were there to fill up, noticed that we looked a bit "lost" and offered to put our gas on their card. It came to 63 liters at $1.15/liter (a deep discount for commercial members) so they said "make ist 50 l and we'll call it even!" 2) last night I was doing laundry at the Mile 0 RV park, talked with a woman who'd noticed our "Just Married" sign and as I was walking back to YOW, she stopped me to give me a bottle of wine for celebration!
Well, time to run down to the grocery store to load up on fresh veggies and hopefully some dry ice to keep our store of fish and meat frozen. We've discovered that dry ice is a very uncommon commodity!
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Hi Guys! The garden is looking pretty good and we've been picking every day. The mosquitoes are voracious here as well and they like me more than Seth it seems. We got our third rabbit the other day. Boy, was Willis proud of himself. Have a great day!
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