Sunday, June 05, 2005
I didn't think we were old
For me today is the beginning of the trip. We are at Dawson Creek, BC mile 0 of the Alaska Highway. A brochure we picked up indicated that there was a spring rodeo this weekend, so we thought great we’d go as we’ve never been to a rodeo. Lunch bag let down – the rodeo was cancelled. Apparently, a lot of the small rodeos have been cancelled due to lack of interest by participants. They prefer to go to the larger rodeos where the prizes are larger. In place of the rodeo we visited the local art gallery, museum that included a film on the making of the Alaska highway, the Walter Wright Pioneer Village (weird co-incidence one of my uncles is Walter Wright) and went bird watching. In both the museum and the pioneer village, I heard Margaret and Ed commenting that they had “one of those things” at home when they were growing up. Those things included irons, sleds, radios, dishes and much more. I thought museums and pioneer villages had “old” stuff in them.
If you wish you can sign our guest book
We have added a web page with a map of our current location and route to date