Home Is Where You Park It: Day 74 of Our RV Journey to Canada & Alaska 7/25/14 A Slow, Long Travel Day

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Day 74 of Our RV Journey to Canada & Alaska 7/25/14 A Slow, Long Travel Day

This morning Bob & I got ready to leave and hooked up to the truck early so that we had time to dump the tanks and wash our very filthy rig after yesterday’s travel. The campground we stayed in had a pretty nice RV wash. We waited in line for one rig to finish getting washed and then we used it. It looked so much better after washing it….hard to believe how dirty our rig can get in a day’s travel. But then again, considering the roads yesterday that we were on, it’s completely understandable.

Jesse & Ginger was soon behind us waiting to use the RV wash. We pulled up to let our’s dry when we were done, while Jesse washed their’s. When Jesse got finished, he took the lead in today’s travel. We were on the road right at 11:00 a.m. as planned.

Today, while traveling we saw a mule deer and 2 fawns. They crossed the highway in front of Jesse. We also saw a pine squirrel, a goat, a duck and some ducklings, black rabbit, wolf & red fox.

It was cloudy and rainy for the first part of the trip, raining hard for a while.

As we traveled on Hwy 37 we saw evidence of a huge forest fire at some time. There were acres and acres of trees burnt. On down the road at a rest stop, there was information on a bulletin board about the fire. It happened in 2010 & 2011.

Bob got to drive on the bridge with the steel grated floor again. He isn’t too fond of that type of bridge floor as he says it feels like his wheels are pulling from side to side. I took a picture of the Haman’s crossing that bridge with their rig.

We found a place to park our rig for the night near Dease Lake, Canada and was set up at 7:00 p.m.

Not long after setting up, we got a fire started and later roasted hot dogs & marshmallows over the fire. We visited by the fire until the mosquitos drove us inside.