On Our Way

Well, as it sounded too good to be true to be leaving Thursday after Luke got off work, I was right. The Army had other plans for us! We ended up having to get a room on the air force base for the night. Planning to leave first thing in the morning today. SO....

I wasn't feeling too hot, so we drove in to 3rd medical, just in case, to see if there was any medication they could give me in case I got more sick. From there we drove to 1/40 for Luke to sign out and be ready to hit the road. On our way back to temporary lodging, our windshield CRACKED. And I don't mean a little crack, this thing was from one side of the window to the other. It HAD to be replaced before we started our trek across the continent. *Sigh* Called Safelite right away and they got us in first thing in the morning, pushing our departure later into the day. Finally after having delay after delay, we were on the road by noon. PHEW.

We weighed our trailer (full) in Eagle River, and continued on. People cringed when we said we were driving in the dead of winter. Honestly, people, we didn't drive slower than 45mph. The drive was long, but beautiful. Until we hit darkness at 4pm. Things we saw on our voyage to Tok, Alaska:

• Switchback mountain pass, one side was a mountain, other side was a cliff that stared straight down into freezing cold water.
• Beautiful mountains, teal blue water.
• Stopped at a gas station in Eureka (a total Men In Trees experience) where they had dinosaur bones and a huge femer bone of a mammal that once roamed these parts of Alaska.
• I plopped a squat at a pull off on the main drag, there was no rest stop for miles! Frozen tundra, roughly 5 degrees, bare butt. Kind of cold. Mom had to re-teach me how to pee outside. Go-Girl would be totally handy!
• Two caribou crossing the road... FIRST wildlife sighting!
• A never ending road to a T, one way to Fairbanks, one way to the Canadian border.

So far, our trip has been good, our first day of driving was sucessful, and everyone ended up in the B&B safe and happy.

We are staying in this quaint little Bed and Breakfast, called A Mooseberry Inn just north of the city limits. In the morning, after breakfast, onward to the border and then our next stop... Whitehorse!