Guidelines for our Trip - Two weeks in, 2675 miles ---

We have a guideline - 4 hours or 200 miles, whichever comes first. We haven't really hit that goal yet, but it keeps us grounded. We don't know how we feel about our first two weeks on the road. Has it been long, short, - we can't tell.

The stores up here are really nice. The grocery store we went to was spacious, the produce and meat were exellent. They have the bakery right next to the entrance, a sure way to get you hungry and in the shopping mood. Prices are a little higher than ours, but not outrageous. Drug stores are really nice, too.


We pass through very rich looking farm land - deep brown soil. There is a lot of grazing land, and hay in the fields but no other crops. We stop at Morice Canyon, which is a salmon fishing place for the indigineous people. It is much like Celilo Falls used to be on the Columbia River, before the dams. There is a fishing platform down there - and a memorial showing how many have lost their lives on these falls.

We travel off the road to an area called the Hazeltons. It is always amazing what happens in these cross road areas People were vying for the railroad, and then there waws a telegraph line being laid from here across Russian because the Atlantic attempt had initially failed. There were crusty ld characters running 30 mule teams to Dawson Creek. It was interesting.
John saw a sign on a board that said "the Dalta King is now in California. " No other explanation. Those kinds of things drive us crazy! I will have to write a special page on the Hazeltons!

Next to a suspension bridge called the Nagwilget Suspension Bridge. The Indians had actually built a bridge across this early on, but it continued to be improved and higher and higher. It is pretty impressive, and even more so because John chose to crawl out under it for a picture.

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We moved on to Lakeelse, and a side trip to Kitamat, which is a planned community that is the site of a very large aluminum plant. It is also the home of the Kitamaat Indians, and they have fishing villages here. Nacho had his picture taken with a bear statue, and at the head of Douglas Sound. The waterways through here are amazing. Kitamat means People of the Snow because this area gets so much heavy snow.

Then we moved on to Prince Rupert. What the guidebooks don't tell yhou is that this 90 mile stretch is probably the most beautiful we have seen- The river widens, mountains on each side, snow melt and waterfalls that go from the edge of the snow to the edge of the river. Every blink produced another breathtaking sight.

We are spending two days in Prince Rupert and then on to White Horse and then Anchorage. This next leg will be 1600 miles.
Catch you at the other end!