FRIDAY - MAY 26, 2017
Now for the first order of business -- an oil change for Buck, the Buick!! Normally Howard changes the oil at 3000 miles and we were pushing 6500 so Buck was starting to think it was time to pay a bit more attention to him!!!! We found a Jiffy Lube and they quickly did the job for us --- Howard had taken a new filter and his favorite oil, Havoline,with us, so they just had to drain and refill!!!
One of these nice young men knew where Lynden was and he had been to Edaleen Dairy Ice Cream Store!!! See it is truly a very small world.
And now for a car wash ----
another thing Buck really appreciates is a clean face and his was getting mighty buggy!!! You see, his face never gets this dirty in Lynden, since we have very few bugs that fly through the air and get plastered on the front of the cars!!!
Now we can get back to business with Buck's tummy full and his face shiny clean.
The above marker is actually the original start of the Alaska highway and MilePost 0 but because of the location in a busy intersection another was constructed about a block away and it is in a more picture taking touristy friendly area.
If any of you viewers have been paying attention we actually did the Alaska trip backwards. I guess most normal people would start the trek on the famous highway AT Milepost 0 -- but we aren't normal and we ended the trip along the Alaska Highway at Milepost 0!!
We also went to the Chamber of Commerce and viewed many displays about the building of the road. I tell you --- the men that built that road need to be commended!! That was no easy task and I am sure that there were many stories told and a wealth of history was made!
We spent a couple of hours in Dawson City and I'm sure there were many more things to see but our main purpose is seeing the beauty of God's creation so after a lunch at Mary Brown's Chicken place we headed down the road again.
The landscape has flattened out a bit here and we are seeing a lot of fields that are ready to be planted and the wind turbines that produce power.
And farms with 'blue' silos!!! I think that their official name is Harvesters!
Yes, that is a field FULL of dandelions!!!! I hate dandelions!!!! When I was but a child back in small town Iowa there were not a lot of things to do to keep a child busy - no internet, no Facebook, 3 channels on TV, so mothers devised things to 'entertain' their children. I was paid the grand sum of .25 cents per 5 gallon bucket -- yes, you read that right, to dig out the dandelions in the lawn!! BUT, before I could deposit my wares next to the burning barrel (we could burn trash back then) I had to show my mom that I had a bucket full!!! Well, she would plant her foot on the top of those blasted weeds and stomp them down and tell me that the bucket was not full enough!!!!! So you see why I HATE dandelions -- and here was a field full of them!!!! I could have been busy for days!
But in Beautiful British Columbia the mountains are never too far away.
And the abundant lakes............
And so we travel onward and are ever reminded that with just a Word from His mouth, God spoke and all of this came into being. And He looked at His creation and saw that it was Very Good!! And here on this great planet, we are able to see upfront and close, His handiwork!! Glory be to His Name!
Our last night in a motel --- 19 nights of sleeping in someone else's bed.
And we learned a little secret with this last night!! I booked a lot of our stays on the internet, just before we arrived into town and that worked out very well and always received good prices. Well, now we were two blocks from the motel so Howard went in to the office and asked how much for a room --- $89.00. I had just seen it online for $63.00, so I booked it online, in their parking lot, and for $63.00.
That makes up a little bit for the $230 dollars for a couple of twin beds in an oil field camp motel!! But, I'm not complaining -- much!!!!!
Stocking Hat #15
Another homesteaders dream crumbling into oblivion.
Another homesteaders dream crumbling into oblivion.
