An old Barn

Hi, from Calgary, Alberta!!!

WE ARE HOME! Yes, after traveling for four weeks our total time traveled was 11,333.1 km and we chewed up 3308 litres of gas (some prices $1.25 per litre). We had no flat tires, no breakdowns and put a small mark on the backend of the trailer when it came into contact with a marker post at one campground. Last night we stayed at the Whispering Pines Campground in Golden and at 9:15 this morning we set off for home arriving at 12.15pm. We had a great time, saw lots of interesting and beautiful scenery, Raymond got zillions of comments on the canoe which we carried on the top of the truck. Four years ago, Raymond made the canoe in our basement and it is a cedar strip with spruce accent strips.

I noticed two things in Alaska – about 95% of the traffic signs have gun shot holes through them and there are oodles of places by the roadside selling handmade knives.

Raymond has parked the trailer in a very small spot in our back yard for the past four years and he has never had any trouble zipping it into its parking space. But either the parking spot in the backyard, or the trailer itself, must have had a mad on with Raymond as today it was a real fight to park it. I guess the trailer wasn’t tired of traveling yet and was simply making a statement that it wanted to keep on going. Oh well, it is finally in its place until we go camping again.