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Well, we arrived home on Sunday evening happy to be home again. The rest of our trip from Butte included picking up the sweet little puppies abd spending three days with Rich's Mom and Dad in Dyer. Our mountains here look smaller! Thank you all for reading our blogs and travelling with us. We'll probably add one more as a summary later on. Nancy and Rich... read more

It rained all night again. It was only 75 miles to Glacier. We spent the last of our Canadian money in the Duty Free Shop. No delay getting across the border and the agent said, “Welcome home.” We set up camp in an RV park with a great view out our back windows. We drove up a short road into the Glacier National Park, and saw interesting views with clouds and grey skies. Tomorrow, the weather is supposed to be better. We spent the afternoon reading and enjoying the view. ... read more

Rich spent two hours working on getting our “black water” (euphemism for sewage) drained and really cleaned out. Yuck! It rained all night and it was a rainy morning. As we drove through the town, Nancy noticed a curling rink. Nearly every town we’ve been through has a curling rink, especially in Canada. Even Anchorage had one. We’ve been noticing that the aster and the goldenrod are blooming. Those are late summer flowers, so the short season is nearly over. We ate lunch by a nice creek. It smelled so good because the clover and the white sweet clover were blooming all over. Mmmm. As we drove along, there were signs about gas pipelines. Then we saw signs on dirt roads that read “Do Not Enter - Poisonous Gas” ofr “No Parking - Poisonous Gas”. There ... read more

When we woke up this morning, we could smell forest fire smoke. Last night when we stopped, Rich had heard that the Cassiar Highway that leads up over the mountains to the west and eventually to Vancouver was closed due to a forest fire. Cars were being led through the smoke by a pilot car. It wasn’t smoky here last night, but today it was pretty thick. We woke up with scratchy throats. We were out of there by 7:45, without breakfast, to get away from the smoke. It took about 60 miles to outrun it. The dog beds and pads had to be put into the bathtub of our camper since they weren’t dry. We were back in the area where the wood bison roam, so we saw about 40 altogether, in different groups. We ... read more