Driving

Well we left home a week ago and the truck has another 3000K on it and the odometer went over 200,000 K today as we drove along the Alaska Highway. We got the truck new 14 years ago this month.

The drive here has been long and slow. Highway 37 had a lot of construction and long stretches where it is very bumpy. Even in the construction zones where they were chip sealing the road had frost heaves in it. We were averaging about 55 kph for large stretches of the drive. On a short drive that is not too bad but this was for a couple of hundred kilometres. Now we are on the Alaska Highway we are moving faster.

The scenery on Highway 37 and the Alaska Highway is great, mountains, forests, rivers and lakes for miles and miles. There was so much of it, it became monotonous, partly because we had to go so slowly because of the road conditions. The two side trips - from Stewart to the Salmon Glacier and from Dease Lake to Telegraph Creek - were worthwhile and I am going to try to get into Telegraph Creek in the autumn when the leaves have turned.

I have the day off tomorrow as we are not going anywhere so maybe I'll go out and take some pictures.