http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/MystikNorth/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from MystikNorth en-us Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:55:05 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:55:05 +0000 Hello everyone I have tons of pictures and a journal full of entries. What I am going to do is type up the journal from day 1 and add the pictures to this. However I will first type up the section of travel for our drive home that you have heard nothing of. I will back date everything for you and you will hopefully enjoy what you read. It is nice to be home... http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alaska/blog-15206.html So we drove to Scully's which is open 24 hours. After debating what candy to buy we smelled fresh coffee. Scully said we could filll our mugs in the empty cafe. I went up the three steps catching my sandal on the 2nd stumbling up the third and onto the deck through the back door grabbed the booth table and did a 180 and landed on my a All the while my mom was laughing at me and all I c http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alaska/blog-15354.html Mom drove to Whitehorse where we did laundry. We met a woman who owned 11 dogs and lived by the dambridge on the Yukon where we saw a baby northern in the water... he was so cute We have fallen in love with the waters of the North they are so often crystal clear and give off the most compelling blue and green colors. We have decided that we must go back this time with a canoe no kids and n http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Yukon/Whitehorse/blog-15352.html I drove through pretty nondescript country from Lac La Hache to Fort Fraser. Mom took over and I slept for an hour. She drove us to the near Junction of 16 and 37 to Sealy Lake Provincial Park. This park had a neat history and a lake full of trout a bunch of noisy kids and camp collectors that do a great job of knowing everything thats going on in camp. We decided not to fish but we now h http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/blog-15282.html We are driving through Spuzzum B.C. on our way to Cache Creek. If we get there soon enough we may still keep driving.I had a pretty bad headache and mom started driving somewhere 2 towns after Hope or so. She drove us to Lac La Hache Provincial Park which we have dubbed June Berry camp There are trees full of June Berries Service Berries or Saskatoons for others in the country everywhere http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/blog-15275.html We camped at Silver Springs last night. The girls and I woke up at 7am and put Dot out and went to the bathroom. Then we went for a walk through the center of the campground where a crystal clear creek flows out of the ground. The girls bellied down to drunk out of the creek. the trees there were bigger than the one in our camp. Maybe 300 years or more in age. We are heading to Seattle to dr http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Snoqualmie/blog-15225.html We have made it to Tower City North Dakota about 50 miles west of FargoMoorhead. We are about an hour ahead of schedule. We stopped to look for camping and saw a seedy motel with a camping sign and went to the city park instead to get our bearings and cook. A couple from the house acrossed the street told us we could camp here for free. there are flush toilets running pump water and a grea http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/North-Dakota/blog-15207.html I woke up at seven with Brea and we are playing SORRY on the computer. Everyone else got up around 9 and Roy made cheese omelets and bacon and we shared our breakfast muffins. We all had a chance to havce a hot shower which was awesome considering we hadn't showered since Friday night before we leftNikki fought with Dot over food and Dot wouldn't even come out to me if Nikki was by me. The http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Mt-Rainier/blog-15221.html We had a somewhat lazy morning and left around 11 am. We drove up to Missoula and did our laundry. Mom looked Sherry up in Arlee up Hwy 93 and called her to leave a message. We drove up and called again from a gas station. We ended up being only 2 miles from her house. She lives way back in the woods with 40 acres and a creek running through the property. Her house was very cool. Cery rust http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Montana/Missoula/blog-15218.html Jake made breakfast this morning fried potatoes and bacon and eggs. Mom and the girls and I went for a walk along the river this morning. Someone had made a neat fort on the bank in miniture though I didn't have the camera with me to take a picture. We hope to make it to Missoula by tonight. We are on our way to Yellowstone and left at 9 am from camp. We have been seeing all sorts of neat fl http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Yellowstone-National-Park/blog-15214.html I am awake and up at 630am. The sun is rising and lighting up the cottonwoods. There's not a cloud in the sky. Dot looks cute looking at the breeze blowing the leaves around in the trees. Everyone else is sleeping in today.We didn't leave until 1 pm and drove down from Forsyth to Shoshone National Forest and camped at the Big Game Campsite wst of Cody Wyoming. We ate at Burger King Dot als http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Montana/blog-15212.html We had to make a stop in Valley City for new differential oil and sealant as its leaking. We made it from Tower City to Miles City Montana and have camped on the Rosebud River for 12.00. There are lots of trains passing by here which makes for difficult sleeping. Kayleigh had a dream about lots of rattlesnakes and woke up scared in the middle of the night. Mom has found more petrified wood h http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Montana/blog-15211.html Wow it has really been a long time since I updated this. We went to Ontario for the first ten days of June myself Kayleigh Breanna Lisa my sister and her husband Ryan mom and our friend Betty Seabright. We had a great trip up along the North Shore of Lake Superior using walkie talkies. We had Smokey Bear lisa's truck had a smokey sticker Care Bear and Momma Bear. It was a blast. I http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Wisconsin/blog-12559.html Good Morning everyoneWe drove through the Columbia River Gorge and on to Idaho after leaving Portland. We decided to head north to Shoshone to visit the Shoshone ice caves. It is a cave inside an ancient lava tube that we climbed down into. There were bones of ice age bears that had been stuck inside the cave and couldn't get out. It was a pretty neat tourist trap. The girls got some polishe http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Wyoming/blog-9521.html Hello out there...I would have done this sooner but my laptop power connection crapped out on me... ugh.So when we are in Cheyenne I am sending it out to be serviced from the UPS store. We are visiting Jake's Aunt Nora and Uncle Mark. They have a son Eric who is six so the girls are having a ball. We are staying the night at their house tonight.So our trip started out slowly because Jake http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Portland/blog-9177.html Hello out there We woke to rain and gloomy skies but now at ten am the sky has opened to allow the sun to shine through. Today is a day of laundry repacking making grocery lists cleaning up our messes and various articlespossessions from throughout the house cleaning handprints off the windows and filling holes Dot dug in the yard. Tonight we are having a weenie roast out in the yard and http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alaska/blog-8606.html Hey everyone Lisa Jake the kids and I have been staying at our dental hygeniest's house. She so graciously allowed us to stay here in her wonderfully big pyramid house. Her view is spectacular There are about ten horses that graze around her property and we can go through the pasture to the beach below. Her property rests at the edge of the bluff overlooking Kachemak Bay and the Kenai Moun http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alaska/blog-8427.html Hello allI just returned from my last deaf social. I am excited to start my third semester of ASL when I return home in the fall. I really enjoy being a part of the deaf community and the longer I am involved the better my signing skills get I really hope to one day get to interpretor level.Well last I have heard there were 250 acres of land burning on East End Road in Homer. I really hope t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alaska/blog-7874.html Okay we now have our extra storage in place atop our truck. One more major purchase of new tires and we should be set to go. The end of the semester is winding down finally and my SPRING FEVER will soon have an outlet I can't wait... More as the days count down to May 14th... http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alaska/blog-7614.html Well I have been spending a lot of time on Americas Byways at www.byways.orgGreat site though I wish they had a better way to create an itinerary from the selected routes we have. If anyone cares to see ours just type in my email address at faemystiquegmail.com and it should come up with Summer 2005. That is so far our plan. I figure that we will leave here around the morning of May 16th aft http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alaska/blog-5942.html