Good evening! This is Linda. We are in Whitehorse, Yukon and we arrived at 4:45 at our hotel. We will not be telephoning anyone until we get to Alaska, aka God's country, the USA. The Bell system seems to have everything locked up here so that no other phone systems are allowed to function. Once again today we have seen a lot of beautiful country that God has created. He did make it on the dusty side though in this area. Yesterday we started noticing sand and it is everywhere now.
Today at noon we made an astounding discovery. We ate at Muckaluck Annie's Salmon Bake and Ila and I had salmon. As I was eating mine and peering at it I remarked, "Now I see where the color 'salmon' gets it's name!" Imagine this, salmon is the color salmon! Aren't I brilliant?! Of course my children already knew that. (Right kids?) We've decided that dinner was the highlight of the day today so far at least. It was unique and tasty and, of course, pricey.
Generally speaking, we have had very good weather. We did wear our coats at the glacier, but of course then we were on a glacier and they have a tendency to be cold. It has rained on us a few times while we were driving and yesterday it poured a while so much that I pulled off for a while. I believe today is the first day that we haven't ran the air conditioner at all in the van.
Someone asked at one time about the driving. Generally speaking we started out each driving about a third each, but the past 3 or 4 days I have done most of the driving. Yesterday morning we got the van serviced to the tune of $69. They charged $25 labor in addition to the filter and oil itself. We find everything to be getting higher and higher as we go north. Gas yesterday was $5.80 when converted to gallons. The good thing is that our dollar is converting close to even with the Canadian dollar. Ours is just worth a little bit less than the Canadian.
Last night we visited with a couple at the Air Force Lodge from Switzerland and 6 people from Ohio. One of them had had a mastectomy on the 25th of May. Of course one of the people in their group was a retired doctor. I'm not the only one leaving on a large adventure soon after a minor medical problem.
We learned last Sunday at church that in Lethbridge, Alberta, like at home, they don't have cashiers at Wal-Mart when you need them.
DF in Texas, please email me at my home address, so that I can reply to you with a neat thing I have to tell you about.
Today we learned that the bikers went on to meet their wives in Alaska, so you needn't be concerned about that. Their wives were flying there to meet them instead of riding with them on their Harleys.
Once again, have a nice day, evening, or whatever time of day is ahead when you are reading this. Don't forget to go to church on Sunday.
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Did you ladies know that you could email the phone number where you are staying and your loved ones could call you? Glad to see you are still moving north. I paid $4.04 for gas this week. I would have to say it will be coming down soon.......
Tough luck with the bikers ladies. Maybe you out to try the Canadian Mounties!!!! We paid $3.69 for gas today. Of course that was in Missouri. Drive Safe!
Mom, had you never had salmon before? They sell it at Fareway (I'm sure your salmon was better). Zoe loved to eat salmon when she was a baby. I'm glad you're having fun and meeting people along the way. Like Howard said, I could call you if you sent me your number. But, if you don't want to hear from me that is okay.
hope you ladies realize you may have to rob a bank to pay for gas on the way home atover $5.00 per gallon!!!! WOW that is crazy! happy to hear you are having fun and not going hungry!!
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