Before we left Watson Lake, we stopped at Signpost Forest. This was started by a homesick soldier working on the Alaska Highway in 1942. It is a large park with posts that have at least 70,000 license plates, road and traffic signs and unique home-made signs. Each year more than 2000 are added. Charlie and Ruth brought a sign (made by Fred) giving Mt.Carmel and the mileage. Hopefully, the pictures will be with this blog. We stopped at Teslin. The picture of the lake here shows the largest span over water on the Alaska Highway. The Chinook Salmon spawn here in this bay. Then they travel over 1800 miles to the Bering Sea. We had lunch in Teslin. About 35 miles from Whitehorse, Larry had a tire blow out on his camper. Jim and Charlie helped ... read more

Not too much to report today. Just travelled today. Drove from Ft. St. John to Ft. Nelson, British Columbia on the Alaska Highway. Very few people live along this route. It is mostly evergreen, birch, and pine trees. We did see quite a bit of logging. They also have oil and gas fields here. I think if you had car trouble, you would have a time getting help. We had several steep grades up and down mountains and those that know me, know I really like mountains(not!) They were also doing road construction and I think we got a rock chip in our windshield. Glad we don't have a new motor home. I decided to do some laundry in my washer/dryer in the motor home. It costs $5.00 a load to wash and dry at the ... read more

We had a beautiful day in Canada today. The weather was a a little cool this morning but sunny. It is now 70 at 8:15 p.m. It doesn't get dark here until around 10:30. We drove from Edmonton to Grande Prairie. We are still in the province of Alberta. They have a lot of pine trees here. Some pastures and cattle. In this area not many houses in between towns. We ate at the Canadian Brewhouse. I had an unusual pizza but very good. Had some kind of potato chips,bacon, chives, cheese and sour cream. Everything is more expensive here. We paid about $5 for a gallon of milk. I will try to add the pictures that I wanted on the blog last night. The WiFi was so slow it kept kicking me off and wouldn't ... read more

We have all of our traveling companions now. Yesterday I added a picture of Becky and Larry. That makes 10 of us traveling in four rv's. We had another beautiful day in Montana. We went to the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center. Very interestiing. We were there 3 hours and could spend days. Lewis and Clark travelled 4000 miles in 18 months - think they made very good time! We went to Fudrucker's for lunch. I had my first buffalo burger. Very good. Tonight we had another good potluck meal. We have some very good cooks in our group. Tomorrow we are heading for Canada. Don't know how often I will be able to add to the blog when we are in Canada. It is just after 10:00 and it just turned dark. ... read more

I am writing this blog for three days as we did not have any internet since Sunday night. As I previously noted, we were having trouble with the motor home - thought it was transmission problems. We started out Monday morning from Sturgis, SD. We were going to Devil's Tower but Jim thought we should go on to Gillette, WY to see if we could get the motor home fixed. Our other travel companions went on to Devil's Tower. Jim and I went to the Cummins shop in Gillette. We were very happy to learn that all the problem was a clogged gas filter. Was clogged with algae. They replace the filters and we were able to go on to our campground. Meanwhile, Jerry and Carolyn's motor home got low on diseal and just quit because ... read more