Greetings from Fort Nelson, BC sunny 61 degrees @ 8:55 P.M

Aggie and I drove from Muncho Lake this morning and had a great traveling day.

These are some of the views we encountered early in our trip from Muncho Lake. It was a little rainy to start and that gave us a unique view of the mountains with no sun.

Just a few miles down the road provided us with these two mountain goats that were in the middle of the road and walked up the hill at their speed.

About 2 hours into this morning trip we happened to see these two guys watching the traffic go by them as they looked on from a bank up from the road.

We decided since we were ahead of schedule to go to the Northwest Territory, and as we headed on up the road we saw a cow and a calf cross in front of us.

Yes you heard right, I said Northwest Territories. Aggie said it would be a shame if we missed an opportunity to say we were in a Providence we didn't plan on going, but just think we can get another magnet for our map. I guess when you put it that way how can I argue with that logic. It's only another 180 miles up highway 77 in the wrong direction for a magnet.

We also saw a fawn on the way, I am sure mom was not too far away.

On our way up to the Northwest Territory we were stopped by a construction crew replacing the planks that were bad on the bridge that goes over the Fort Nelson river. The flag person said to us that our wait should be no longer than an hour. Yes I said an hour. Can you imagine what would happen in Dane County if you told someone that they would have to sit in a line for an hour waiting for a few planks to be replaced? Everyone just sat in their vehicles with no cell phone service and no radio stations to listen to for an hour and no one honked or yelled. We had time to take a short walk down to the river while we waited.

And when it was time to go there were only 9 vehicles behind us. We crossed after the work truck on the bridge backed off and allowed us to pass.

One thing we noticed about Canada is almost every worker is in a union and they have a tax similar to the VAT Tax that our President and Nancy and Harry want us to pay. I guess that is why we had to pay $80.00 for an oil change and our breakfast usually runs around $30.00 for the two of us. I hope Pete at Hobo's don't here about this otherwise he might think he can start his own VAT Tax. Only he could call it a HOBO TAX. Then Ba and Cindy would join a union and then everything would go to heck, what a mess.

Tomorrow its off to Grande Prairie, Alberta and continuing in the direction of home.

That's all for now,

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Greetings from Muncho Lake, BC overcast 40 degrees.

Aggie and I drove to Watson Lake, BC and found the town interesting but had no suitable place to stay over night. We decided to continue on our trip and drove a little further and now are at Muncho Lake, BC at the Northern Rockies Lodge. We saw some very interesting sites along the way and was worth the extra driving. Below I have included some snap shots of our trip.

Happy birthday to Hailey Schmitz and happy anniversary to Ted and Linda.




At Whitehorse I sure surprised to see a giant Mountie along the road, that sure will go good with my collection of the giant cow and crane.

I was able to get the mud washed off the car and it now looks a little better. Had to buy new windshield wipers. The mud and rain take a toll on them.

This is the only auto repair shop in Watson Lake. I am no mechanic but I think I would try to fix it myself first.

This is the famous sign post forest in Watson Lake. It all started when the military was building the road and the soldiers were home sick and started putting signs up from their home town. As of today there are 69,000 signs posted from all over the world.

Aggie and I saw a lot of buffalo on the way, the first two we saw were fighting next to the road.

Then we saw a bear lying next to the road getting warm off the blacktop.

We even saw a buffalo taking a dump.

and buffalo lying along the road bedded down for the night.

And as we all know if you see that many buffalo you will always have a fair amount of this.

This is what the Indian Chief would send me out to look for when I was little and had been captured by the Indians. This was definitely a good sign.

That's all for this morning

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