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What is Next
We are in Virginia until we return to Alaska next spring. C set up a camera that sends us photos of the cabin until the cold drains the battery. We left Alaska just in time to avoid plowing and shoveling snow! Snow was falling as we packed on September 21. Snow was sticking to the…
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Day 18, Home!
Today we drove from Bradford, PA to Luray, VA, arriving home at 4:30. In 15 days of driving we travelled 5,150 miles from Healy, Alaska (18 days total as we took 3 days off along the way). It is splendid to be home with running water, comfy furniture, and 2 laying hens! Our house sitters…
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Day 17, Niagara Falls
Today we crossed the US/Canada border four times (2 crossings were unplanned as C left his phone at his nephew’s as we discovered just 15 miles down the road). We drove from Port Huron, MI to Bradford, PA adding about 2 hours to see Niagara Falls. We arrived at Niagara Falls, Ontario at nearly 6…
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Day 16 Grayling to Port Huron, MI
Yesterday we drove half the day, then spent the remainder visiting C’s nephew and family on the thumb of Michigan. We greatly enjoyed our visit. We also got a good look at Lake Huron and at the river route between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
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Day 15, Three Lakes to Grayling, MI
Loads of excellent scenery today, but no wildlife. Fall colors were excellent for many miles in upper Michigan and finally included some excellent reds, along with orange, yellow and green. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior was gorgeous. Lake Michigan was beautiful as well. We were pleasantly surprised that scenic Highway 2 had sand…
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Day 14, Bemidji, MN to Three Lakes, MI
Our fun stop for the day was the Bois Brule trout fishing river, which also has coho and chinook runs in the fall. We didn’t fish as the coho run had pretty much ended 2 weeks ago. We also visited a fish hatchery there. It had a nice little info center where you could buy…
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Day 13, Bemidji, MN
We are spending a 2nd day in Bemidji. We went to the nearby state park where some tamarack trees had turned yellow. Like other larch trees they will lose their needles over the winter At peaceful Big Bog Lake I saw a large otter swimming across the lake and 3 noisy kingfishers. As we finished…
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Day 12, Arcola, SK to Bemidji, MN
We saw a bull moose trotting through a field in Canada this morning. I wonder if that will be our last moose sighting for the next 6 months…. We also saw 3 whitetail deer this evening and will be seeing a lot more of those! Long drive today, leaving at 9 am, arriving 10 hours…
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Day 11, N Battleford to Arcola, SK
All Saskatchewan today as we traveled southeast. Tomorrow we plan to go through a tiny corner of Manitoba before crossing into North Dakota. Our brief fun stop for the day was Condie Nature Refuge where we saw 5 mule deer and some cool birds. We saw a lot of geese in fields and ponds along…
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Day 10, Whitecourt, AB to North Battleford, SK
Today we C saw a moose before we even reached the fenced Elk Island National Park. At the north gate of the park we saw a coyote before reaching the entrance station. I took a short hike at Astotin Lake, where I saw a swimming beaver, a feeding pelican, and other waterfowl that I wished…
Me & C
Roaming: Shenandoah River to the Alaska Range
Me & C 