It has been a while since we posted. We arrived safely in GA after eight days on the road back from Alaska. The trip was a quick one - stops were kept to a minimum. Our house was topsy turvy - I did manage to get the curio cabinets emptied before the painters got to them. We have stayed with my brother David and daughter Elizabeth several days and then we took a trip up to meet our longtime friends, Terry and Dee, at Amicalola Falls. We got back into the house last week and have been working hard to clean up and rearrange everything since.

Elizabeth is still planning to go to Delta Junction. She has an apartment now and is getting excited and nervous at the same time. Tom is planning on flying up there with her and getting her settled.

Roxie is now trim and lean - the yard is good for her to run around in and get lots of exercise chasing squirrels and birds. She is having a great time off-leash. At least we do not have to worry about someone shooting at her.

This will be my last post for a while. There won't be much to say this summer.

Tom and Roxie at Radium Hot Springs. The highway was cut out of the mountain behind him. This was a tough mountain to climb and descend. Trucks were having a really hard time. Glad I wasn't driving.


A young man had his friend take his photo while he was on top of this rock. I said "Tom, why don't you hop up there and let me take your photo, too!" And he did!


There are swarms of insects in Canada - they hit the windshield like the birds in "The Birds". There must have been a thousand on our windshield, the view was absolutely obstructed. Every stop we made, the windshield had to be scrubbed.


I have attempted to make Roxie as comfortable as possible. She is on top of two sleeping bags, a wool blanket and a towel - all of which serve to put her at exactly the right height to be near her "man", have a clear view out the front window, and take a comfy snooze without being too far from Tom. We stopped at Pet Land in Prince George and got her a new leash and some chicken snacks.

It took us three entire days plus half this morning to get through Canada. What a long trip! It isn't as much fun when one is just driving - not stopping to enjoy the sights. We got so tired of the bugs and the mountains just seemed to go on and on. I mean they were beautiful but there were so many of them. We were mighty glad to cross the border into Montana this morning. We entered above Eureka and drove through Kalispell and hit Interstate 90 at Missoula. The western part of Montana is just so much more beautiful that the eastern part - at least from what I can remember. These huge rolling hills - and the Flathead Lake was fabulous.

Hope we can make good time the next couple of days. It is all interstate from here.

Elizabeth called and said she had a good possibility of a roommate. That was great news. Housing is quite high in Delta Junction - if you can find it at all. She said the gal she was going to room with was on a road trip this summer on her motorcycle!

Today, there was a beeping sound every ten minutes in the car - coming from the dashboard. As near as we could figure it was near the radio. We got into one of those arguments - Tom insisted there was nothing wrong with the truck and I was insisting that there must be, else why would this beep keep going off every ten minutes. I got the manual out and skimmed that thing from front to back - nothing about a beep. Every time it beeped we would stop talking and look at the dashboard to see if there was a warning light or a message. This went on for about five hours - from Radium Hot Springs to Missoula. We did not figure it out till we parked the truck at the motel, cut it off and were getting out of the vehicle when we heard it again and realized it was the cell phone telling us it had a low battery.

Spent the night in a pretty nice town - Smithers, British Columbia. Tom and Roxie are getting the truck gassed up - I think it is around $76 to fill the truck. Ouch! Not sure if that is Canadian or US but I think it is by the liter - and cannot remember how a liter compares to a gallon. I just know that the gas is expensive. Tom wants to get out of Canada as soon as possible.

Roxie will not let Tom out of her sight. She is obsessed with him.

Tom and Roxie posing once again. Tom is such a good sport.


Roxie catches up on her sleep in the back seat of the truck.


Huge rushing streams are everywhere. I've never seen so much water.

Below are some of the animals we saw on the Cassiar Highway. We really felt like we were in the wilderness here - not so many folks on the road. Weather was beautiful and the road was paved almost the whole way - contrary to what some people told us. The first hundred miles or so was a little rough - but after that, just fine.
Let's see, we saw a red fox, seven black bears, one moose, three reindeer, and four horses.

We believe these are female caribou (or reindeer).

This moose was certainly a familiar sight.

Tom thinks this is a male caribou (or reindeer).

I've never been so close to a black bear! She was really giving us the eye and I was pretty glad I was in the truck.

These great looking horses were just ambling down the middle of the road.