I have posted pictures of Day 3 of the Return Trip in the gallery. Day 3 took us from Muncho Lake, B.C. to Whitehorse, Yukon. Take a look at the great scenery of the Alaska Highway. Here is a picture of one of the rivers flowing along the Alaska Highway.

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After 20 days and nearly 8000km of driving I found that there were several things about highway driving especially that I found either funny, maddening, or unexplainable. If you have ever taken a long driving trip you will hopefully understand what I am talking about.
The first topic is speed limits. It appears to me that [...]

August 21, 2004 - The trip is finally over. 747km of dust highway and 11 hours makes for a long day. The weather was as good as it could possibly be. It was dry and the road was hard packed most of the way. We stopped several times along the way for pictures. I was [...]

August 21, 2004 - The trip is finally over. 747km of dust highway and 11 hours makes for a long day. The weather was as good as it could possibly be. It was dry and the road was hard packed most of the way. We stopped several times along the way for pictures. I was [...]

August 20, 2004 - Day 4 is complete. The word for the day is Yellow. Yellow because of what I mentioned yesterday about fall being right around the corner. We started the day by picking up some dog food for the crew at the Feed Store and by picking up some supplies for the Pilot [...]

August 19, 2004 - Day 3 is now complete. The word for the day is again smokey. The drive from Muncho Lake to Watson Lake was even smokier than the trip the day before. This time the smell was in the air. A very heavy smoke smell. We started the trip with The Corrs in [...]

August 18, 2004 - Day 2 is now complete. The word for the day is smokey. 711km and much smoke and we arrived in Muncho Lake, B.C. at 7:45pm. We started the day in Dawson Creek by visiting a pet store to get Bijou a treat and to visit the Mile “0″ marker of the [...]

August 17, 2004 - Day 1 of the return trip is now complete. We started the day with Lenny Kravitz in the CD player and lots more CDs in the holder for later. The word for today is construction. After 607km of highway and 10 construction zones the first day is over. All 10 of [...]

We are heading home on Tuesday and we are taking an extra day going back. I will be posting our travel journal with pictures whenever we can during the evenings. It has been a good holiday but we are looking forward to going home. Stay tuned for the updates of our return trip.

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We allowed ourselves a little extra sleep this morning as we only had 7 hours of travel ahead of us today. It was 10:00am when we hit Tim Hortons and the road this morning (Aug 5th).
We started out of Dawson Creek in a light rain and fog. We saw a mileage sign on it and [...]