Idaho Falls Idaho

Well, We are finally on our way home.

we are less than 1000 miles from Hesperia. Tomorrow we will move to SaltLake City. Dick is thinking about seeing if he can research some relatives. He found out some about his grand mother and grand father on his fathers side. Now he is all excited to find out more. If it is possible for hem to do some searching we will stay there a few days.

I am still trying to put some pictures in this. If they do not go then we will have to have a bore your family look at Alaska pictures on our big screen TV when we get home

The ppics posted they in the Ddmonton mall at the wave pool. It was huge

Montana good old USA

We finally got back in to the US. We almost did not make it because Sick had gotten a piece of Caraboo horn to make pens out of and they would not let us in un less he could prove that he did not kill a caraboo and take only the horn. and we were really glad that we did not buy any fruil or vegies before we came across. There were stacks of fresh corn on the ccob that was beeing taken from people crossing.

We stopped in Lewistown, Mt and visited Dicks cousins. We had a really nice visit. They were very happy to see him and we got a lot of family history. We went to the cemetary where his grandma and grandpa were burried. Also some aunts and unkles were there. Then we drove out to his unkle's farm.. The barn is still there. The old house was gone but there were a lot of memories there.

The pictures if I can get them to load are of the Edmonton Mall

Still hanging out in Edmonton

We have been to the mall 3 times and we have not been in every shop or done every thing there is to do. We spent a morning in the wave pool. That was fun. Yesterday we saw the sealion show. To day we are trying to clean the MOHO and get ready to travel on if the meds get here today. If they do not we will have to stay into next week because no week end mail delivery.

Edmonton, Alberta

We are here for a week waiting for our meds to catch up with us. While we are here we hope to eaxplore the West Edmonton Mall. There is a gigantic water park with a wave pool ( got to try that out). There are over a thousand stores. There is a skating rink , a ship, and other attractions I will be able to tell you better after we have been there.
I am going to try for some more pics of Alaska. The clouds are awsome and the water is all green and bright blue from glacier run off.

Back on line

_For a long time I have been unable to get on line with my compute-r. I finally decided that I needed a new computer with built in wireless. Now that I figured that I have a switch to turn it on I am back in business, We are back at Prince George, BC an aare on our own. It really seems strange not to be going down the road with the group. They were areally great bunch of people and we had so much fun with them
Now to try and put in a few pictures. Now that I can do it again I will try to get some more and will be able to tell you a little about them. Right now the thumbnails are so small I can't tell what they are until I can figure out how to make them bigger.

After Gold Panning

We went to Elderado Gold Mine. Every one was guaranteed to get gold or to get acertaim amount of gold. Between the two of us we got 30 dollars worth. I had them put into a pendant and ear rings. When we got done there and started back to the RV park it was raining again. I am going to a paddle wheel boat ride, Dick is going to get the oilchanged in the MO HO. In the afternoon we have free time. We will do something a surprise.

The day after Barrow

Yesterday was an awesome day. We have not flown in years. It was a great flight both ways. Flying over the Artic Ocean was amazing. Some of the water is still frozen. The Tundra is so unusual. No trees. Barrow has no trees. All of the roads are dirt. The homes are all built on stilts because the houses are warm and they sink into the permafrost. They have at least r33 insulation on all six sides. They look really junky from the out side because they have to be made of natural wood so that they water can permeate it. Other materials besides metal cannot with stand the temperatures. It was 39 there but the sun was shining and there were local kids playing in the sand with just short sleeve t shirts. I had cuddle duds under my shirt and a heavy jacket. Three from our group put on bathing suits and took a dive in the Artic to get a polars bear certificate. They did not tell us that we could do this so we did not bring suits. Really I'm glad I did not.
We are going gold panning today. I am hoping for a nugget but will probably be happy with a few flakes. We toured the city of Fairbanks today and saw the Alyeska Pipeline up close and personal. Fairbanks has a College with a museum of Alaska histor the is unbelieveable. We really enjoyed the visit there.
Well, guess I better get on my gold paning clothes. Let you know what happens