The Adventure of a Lifetime

Well, we have been home a few days and have settled back into our routine.

When it was all said and done, we drove 4,093 miles, visited Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska,.

We saw some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen.  Pictures just don't do it justice. 

Picture yourself with this view surrounding you as far as you can see.  Fresh air, quiet, birds singing, and a glass of wine.  

  You can almost hear the water running down the river.

The wind is blowing through the trees and all you hear is the soft russtle.

We saw black bear, grizzly bear, wolf, elk, moose, reindeer, musk oxen, owl, fox, porcupine, buffalo (bison), bald eagle, many other species of birds and beautiful plant life.

We tasted elk, buffalo and reindeer.  As they say, "when in Alaska, do what the Alaskans do".  We had to at least try it.

Towards the end of our trip, there was 22 hours of daylight, so while sleeping was difficult, we were able to spend much of the daylight hours enjoying our surroundings.  

Even the airport in Anchorage had an interesting lobby exhibit.

 
 I won't complain about California gas prices again.  We were paying upwards towards $6.00 per gallon in some places in Canada.  When we got into Alaska and saw $3.89, we were thrilled.

I thought I would try to figure out how many miles per gallon we got, but with Canadian gas in liters and mileage in kilometers, and some times the maximum gas purchase was capped at $150, in the long run I guess it really does not matter.   We would have purchased it no matter what and drove to the same places.

Thanks for reading my blog.  This post just took me about 10 minutes, and other blog posts took between 2-3 hours.   What a difference.

Until next time.......  Gaylene and Tom