June 22-23, 2018 Alaska Highway, Milepost 300 We were barely out of Dawson Creek when an oncoming truck threw a rock that shattered the windshield in front of the driver’s seat. Glass splinters covered Dave and reached as far into the coach as the kitchen. There is no question of Read more…
June 20-21, 2018 Alaska Highway, Milepost 0 Jane had stopped being hugely worried about the spider crack in the windshield: It wasn’t growing and Dave reinforced the area with super glue. On the way to Dawson Creek, however, the windshield took another hit, this time chipping out a quarter-sized piece Read more…
June 17-19, 2018 Edmonton has about 1.3 million people and is Canada’s sixth largest municipality. First Nations people lived in the area at least since 3000 and possibly as long as 10,000 years ago. The first European settlers arrived in the area around 1795. Edmonton was established as a Read more…
June 13-16, 2018 Icefields Parkway Banff and Jasper National Parks are connected by the Icefields Parkway, considered by many (including us) to be one of the most scenic drives in the world. The parkway stretches 232 kilometers winding along the Continental Divide. It is dotted with more than 100 ancient Read more…
June 9-12, 2018 We must have been impressed with the drive from Lethbridge to Banff because we took 76 pictures. Here are a few of our favorites. We stopped by the Visitor’s Center and then took a drive around town to get oriented. A little further along the Bow River Read more…
June 7-8, 2018 The drive from Billings, Montana to Lethbridge, Alberta was eventful. First, before we crossed the border into Canada, a passing truck threw a rock at the windshield and the windshield developed a spider-like crack. This was Jane’s first experience with a cracked windshield and she remembered TV commercials Read more…
June 5-6, 2018 The drive from Billings to Helena was more beautiful than our through-the-windows photos could capture. Montana Capitol In 1805, when Lewis and Clark traveled through the area that was to become Helena, they called it Prickly Pear Valley. Sixty years later it became the mining camp of Read more…
June 2-3, 2018 Billings, with a current population of about 110,000 is the largest city in the Montana and only city with a population over 100,000. Dave and his family lived in Billings from 1953 to 1956. His sister Susan was born in Billings in 1953 when the city’s population Read more…
May 31 – June 2, 2018 Casper is a city in central Wyoming, the second largest city in the state. It is nicknamed “The Oil City” and has a long history as an oil boomtown and cowboy center. Dave’s father was a petroleum geologist and when he worked for Conoco Read more…
May 20, 2018 In some ways, we’re still RV newbies, but we’ve finished our first year on the road. 10,870 total miles 51 moves 20 states, 2 provinces Easternmost point: Fort Pierce, Florida; Westernmost point: Denver, Colorado; Northernmost point: Regina, Saskatchewan; Southernmost point: Harlingen, Texas [Nuevo Progresso, Mexico without the Read more…