Traveling North...

Well, we're even deeper into this great country today and staying in a place called Clinton Pines Campground.  We've decided we are much happier camping in nice places like this than staying in skeezy Super 8 motels in a rather noisy, dirty, uncomfortable city.  Go figure.  This place is absolutely gorgeous... it's only got about 10 campsites and they give you free firewood! We haven't had a campfire this whole time, so Jordan got that going right away.


We left Vancouver around 9:30 this morning....sadly, the weather wasn't that great and what we had planned to do was to hang out at a park all morning.  After driving through crazy city roads for about 45 minutes to go 10km, I had pretty much had it with Vancouver and just wanted to get on the road and go to a place I knew would be more relaxing.  So, sorry Josh... maybe you were at a really remote, beautiful part of Van-town, and you were probably driven there instead of having to drive yourself.  We both hated the traffic, the crowds, and stupid one-way roads.  We're also pretty road-weary at this point, so we were glad to skidaddle outta there.

Anyways, onward and upward we drove for about 4 hours today on the Alaskan Highway.  Ya know what? This road is absolutely beautiful. So scenic. Most of the highway is only one lane, splitting into two on hills, so if you get stuck behind someone slow (like me) you have plenty of opportunity to pass by.  One thing I will say though is that when they do road construction and there's a sign warning you about 20 minute delays, they mean it. Now, to most of us, a delay means you might hit some traffic. In Canada, a delay means one man standing in the middle of the road with a stop sign for literally 20 minutes, with no cars coming from the other direction.  Until some magical voice on his walkie-talkie gives him permission to make the big move. Or in other words, turn his little sign around to read "slow". In which case you proceed.  We got stopped like this twice today, the first time in which Layla took it upon herself to get rough and tough in the back of the car and growl for 10 of said 20 minute waits.  Sigh. We just endured it and mostly laughed.

So tonight we cooked spaghetti for dinner, I'm doing three loads of laundry, and we took a little walk around the campground.  And how am I posting this you ask? Why we've entered the 21st century folks. You can now receive wi-fi from the very comfort of inside your Coleman tent:)

Just a few pics from today....