September 17th, 2009

Finally made it to a town with internet...or rather, a hotel with internet.
We are currently in .....uh, Canada!
Make that Fort St. John, Canada, just north of Dawson Creek, B.C.
We spent last night in Cache Creek in a funny little motel called the Sage Hills Motel.  The lady who owns and runs it is English through and through...real fast talker but good sense of humor.  She had a border collie that really wanted to play fetch with a stick but not nearly as bad as she wanted to hold on to said stick.  Every time I would reach for the stick she would pull away, and then follow me around with it when I started to walk...including in our room.

Yesterday's drive started at 10:30 a.m. and we hit Cache Creek at 10:00 o.m.   We rolled through Seattle right at 3:30 and just barely skipped past without hitting rush hour though the signs of its onset were increasing as we progressed.  We crossed the border with no issues at 5:30-ish?  They asked us why we were there, where we were going, and if gabe always looked like that.  He made us park and go inside the building while he sratch and sniffed our passports for a few minutes, letting us sweat and wait.  Then he said "here you go", left the passports on the table and walked away.  We left pretty quick.

Today we were up at 7, had breakfast by 8 at the Black Bear Cafe (Eggs Benedict x 2...uh, good!)  and bolted out of town by 8:30.  It took 5.5 hours to get to Prince George.  We tried to find a spare tire for the trailer but apparently it is a one of a kind type of rim and we were unsuccessful (thanks Uhaul!).  We also converted some cash in to the very colorful Canadian, eh, money .  They talk funny up here.  It took us another 7 hours to get to Fort St. John.  It's been a long day.  Tried to get in in time to skype Marcie but I was not fast enough....sorry sweetheart.

Puck got to play with a 4 month old golden-white lab in the park named Charlie...it was awesome and he needed it.  The cats are doing well, taking it all in stride.  Lucipher cried through Portland and finally gave in with the exception of an occassional WOOOWWRR every hour or so just to let us know she was still there.  She loves to climb and ride on the top of the shelf I made.  Fatty, aka "The Black Lord"....he just goes with the flow...no complaints as long as he has food.   The frogs....they hardly say a thing.

We have been in awe of the landscape...the pictures don't do justice.  We finally saw a moose and calf this evening (Gabe's first) and a few deer...the only animals we have seen so far.  We did get a little excited when we saw the badger crossing sign....but no badgers yet.  For the pictures...just click the slide show to the right and they will open up in a new window.

Don't know how the internet links will be in the next few days, but we will try to update as much as possible.
Trying to make it to Lake Watson (i think) tomorrow...about another 10-12 hour day.  Stay tuned.

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