July 7, 2008 Day 6 Dawson Creek, BC to Fort Nelson, BC Canada Well, we are sitting at mile 300 of the Alaska highway as of now. Spending the night at the Ramada in Fort Nelson. Today has been a interesting day, but not overly exciting, but you know you can't have exciting all the time. The morning started out about the same as usual with waking ...

Saturday, July 5 The Alaska Highway that we are driving is not the same road that the Army Corps of Engineers built in 1942. That one was gravel, and this is paved, and it has been much improved over the years. Many curves have been eliminated, mountains bypassed, and as a result it is now shorter than it was.The mileposts are gone as well, remo...

Another early day, up at 6:00 a.m. and on the road by 7:30a.m. It was a weird day for weather as it was about 10 degrees Celcius when we hit the road, but clear skies. After about an hour of riding we were in Grand Prairie Alberta and we were a little on the cold side, in fact Bob was freezing. We stopped at a donut shop for a coffee to warm up ...