It's almost over:

We traveled to Banff again on our way south, then back into the USA with our daughter Alicia her husband and our newest granddaughter Elizabeth.

Here is Elizabeth enjoying Banff.

It snowed a few times as many as 3 inches at a time.

Hiking with a stroller.

We couldn't even see the mountains at Lake Louise.

Glacier National Park

We went to Glacier National Park and took a drive and a hike.

Billings , Montana is the location of the very first KOA Campground. We really enjoyed the park and the playground. LOL

Campfire complete with S'Mores.

Mt Rushmore. 

Badlands National Park:

And finally Wall Drug Store in Wall, South Dakota.

Sept 25th: we were in Salem, South Dakota and we'll be home by Thursday. 

This is our second trip to Alaska and we plan to go back. It's the best road trip there is.

Thanks for following along.

Snow, it happened.  

We stayed too late.

Somebody, who shall go nameless, wanted to see the northern lights!!

 

 We are in Ft Nelson and it snowed about 3 inches.

It's bloody cold and we are concerned tonight's 22 degrees will "freeze" things. UGH

 The snow started around 2am and continued until almost 6pm.

 

See all the snow on the awning that is over the slide? This afternoon Les went up on the ladder and brushed the snow off so tonight it won't freeze up there. There are 4 slides with awnings, he was pretty much frozen after this little task.

 

 

Back to Watson Lake and the Sign Forest. Managed a trip to Watson Lake that did not involve the emergency room, thank the Lord.

 

 

We, and by we I mean Les, hung our sign. This also involved a ladder, really testing our luck in a town that has proven to be unlucky.

There it is, a Texas license plate with our names and the date. The plate was stolen off a car years ago just for this purpose:)

 

Wildlife Sightings:

 

 Elk

 This was on the drive from Watson Lake to Ft Nelson.

 

Stone sheep. One of two groups we saw on the road.

Buffalo. Can never tell when one of them will get spooked and run in front of you. That would be bad, for everyone concerned. We drive about 5 miles an hour past these guys.

More buffalo. Hard to tell here, but there are about 50 of them in this heard.

Caribou, there were only 2 of these.

Off to Dawson Creek tomorrow...... In the snow and sub freezing temps. Should be soooooo much fun.

 

Fast Ferry to Juneau:

From Haines we took an excursion to Juneau for the day. We boarded Fjordland Catamaran that held about70 people.

I had to find a pic of the boat online.

It took about 2 hrs to get to Juneau in the morning.

We went past some beautiful scenery. Our weather was picture perfect and the seas were calm.

We spent a good amount of time in the Red Dog Saloon.

 

Eldred Rock Lighthouse.

 

 

 

And then it turned into a whale watching excursion.

 

I believe we were one of 8 boats watching 3 whales.

 

 

 

 

A cruise ship went by.

 

Happy Hour

Watch the very first second and see the whale go down.

 

Haines harbor and a small cruise ship.

 

What a beautiful day we had.

 

We left Haines at 8:30am and returned at 7:15pm and loved every moment.

 

On to Whitehorse............

 

 

Aurora Borealis

We stayed in Alaska so late because I (Nancy) really wanted to see

fall colors and the Northern Lights. Well we've seen both. I am so happy. We saw these in Fairbanks on a rare clear night. I set the alarm for 1:30am and just sat looking out the window. It only took a few minutes before we started seeing them.

I'm not the best photographer but these are the shots

I got.

That's the moon.

Below are random pictures we've taken:

Here we are getting propane in Tok, Alaska. 

From Tok we took an overnight drive to Dawson City on the Top Of The World Highway.

We put the truck on the George Black Ferry to cross the Yukon River.

An old theater building in Dawson City.

Mom and baby moose just outside of Chicken, Alaska.

 

Quirky saloon in Chicken.

 

The chickens in Chicken.

 

All my life I've called it pop, not soda.

This sign was in a Canadian grocery store. 

 

T-shirt Funny.

Gorgeous glaciers.