GOOFY CANADA TRAVELS

Lets start with with the forecast of SNOW !  Four days into this trip and I thought the weather driving across the plains of Canada would be hot. NOT !  Windy yes, hot no.  It hasn't been freezing but it hasn't been overly warm. Which is a lovely change from the encroaching summer in Florida.  But today we came across the province of Alberta and are steadily heading north as we go further and further west on our treck to Alaska. Once we got to the motel this afternoon and FINALLY settled in we started making our reservations for the next leg of our journey. Tomorrow we head into the mountains and if it seemed chilly today I better hold on to my butt for the next couple of days.  When we called ahead to Fort Nelson for tomorrow's motel room the girl at the desk said it had stopped snowing so we would be fine. HOLY MITTENS BAT MAN. . .  Where did I pack my muckalucks ?

(What ever the heck they are!)   Have I really thought this trip through? Driving cross the US and Canada in May is not the same as doing this trip in late August early September. The packing alone was daunting because the temperatures in mid summer in Fairbanks COULD be in the mid 80's but today I am facing possible snow. So in my suitcase are a range of clothes from sweat shirt and jeans to tank tops and shorts. All that cradles the bottle of vodka that is already half empty and we are only 4 days out. Could it be that travel in Canada encourages drinking ? If you were to ask Dwayne that question you would get a resounding YES !  

It all started in me arriving in Michigan with a full blown cold. Right there we knew we were off on a bad start. Friday we left town on schedule and all was right with the world. Made good time to our first stop,checked in, slept pretty good and Dwayne woke up not feeling great. (Maybe it was the 6 beers and basket of fried mushrooms he had for dinner last night, maybe not. I'm just saying.) The day improved, we drove on and by the time we got to our hotel on night 2 we collapsed, had a bowl of soup and fell asleep at 8:30 PM. So far so good but then we are still traveling across the good old USA. Day 3 brings us to the Canadian border where we left our home turf and headed North. The day was warm and lovely but talk about boring . . .  O . M . G . YAWN.     Nothing and I do mean nothing but flat flat plains of DIRT.  Yes, I said DIRT.  Or rather I should say mud.  It seems that May is Mud season in Canada. Mud mud and more mud.  Just lovely!  So as we are driving along we decided to call Dwayne's son using the truck's ON STAR system so we wouldn't accumulate huge phone charges but for some reason the on star wouldn't work. Surprise!  It seems that Canadian On Star has switched from 2g to 4g and Dwayne's truck can't handle the 4g so the On Star won't work in Canada.  Travel in Canada is exactly why D has On Star so what is the point?  The comedy of errors has continued all day yesterday and today from doors not opening, the cover on the back of the truck suddenly flying open as we are driving 60 mph down the road, the phone in our room not working, the heat in our room not working, the hot water in the room taking forever to get hot, the ice machine being on the top floor when our room is on the first floor . . . Just crazy stuff . . . 

But we are together,  we ARE having fun and we will be in Alaska in another 3 days.