ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!!!! Time is 9:43 AM and we need to find some ICE for the fish. The roads are all curvy, following the flow of the rivers at the base of the mountains. 1:23 PM there are buffalo on the sides of the road- 6 on one side and 11 on the other side with at least 4 babies. Just before this at 12:29 PM a huge rock hit the bottom third center of the windshield and it arced into a little bigger than a softball! At 3:55 we saw 3 Stone Sheep cross the road and walk down the steep hillsides. It was a big male with huge horns, a mother and her baby lamb. They ran down the rocky hill to where we couldn't see them. I got out of the RV and walked to the edge to see them. Daddy said to not fall over the edge, he wouldn't come down to get me! Since I was really still, they walked back up the hill and across the road again and I got a couple pictures.Then at 3:58 we saw an elk eating along the same side of the road.
They say Alaska is the last frontier; that Montana has the biggest sky and the Yukon is larger than life. And it really is!!!
We sat in a line of RVs for 20 minutes, at least, and then had to follow a road repair truck for at least 4 miles (which was the length of road they were repairing) really slowly. That really cut into our driving time! They cleaned the road bed, put oil down then added loose gravel on top. This is the gravel that flies up and cracks our windshield.
When we stopped in Fort Nelson, British Columbia to fill up with diesel, I noticed a third crack in the CRV windshield. We were going to stay at the Westend RV Park where we stayed on our trip out west, but they were too busy to even tell us if they had a spot for us. So we went down the Bluebell RV Park and actually got excellent internet reception. Now I can catch up on my blog. We've been 3 days without cell phones and Internet and TV. Real Wilderness!!!
We took the fish out of the cooler and put it into the RV freezer, then took the food from the freezer and put it in the cooler. We'll leave the cooler inside the RV now. It'll be our coffee table! It'll stay cooler and save our expensive fish. It has really gotten warm compared to the temperatures we enjoyed in Alaska.
We were going to eat out at a sports bar just outside of town; but the CRV won't start now. So we're walking to a Boston Pizza; it's a block away.
Daddy drove 462 miles today.
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