Day 5 – Canada Bound (07/01/2009)

After getting in late last night, we slept in a little later, had several stops before we left Butte, MO, and did not get on the road until around 10:20 a.m. Today was just a driving day, 494 miles in 9:10 hours, no stops along the way. Almost the entire day was freeway driving through the Rockies, into Canada and on to Airdrie, Alberta. Airdrie is north of Calgary so we do not have to start in the rush tomorrow. The only incident today was at the Canadian border. I had been told not to joke with or mess with the border patrol agents; I passed this on to Nina. We pulled up to the border window and as I handed him the passports he yelled, “Did you take my picture?” I looked at Nina and she said, “No, I took his, you are not in it”. While she was telling him this, she was holding the camera up and he was hiding behind the wall and yelling, “Put it down, put it down!” It was really somewhat funny. He told us that you could not take a picture of a federal building or a federal officer in Canada. At least he did not confiscate the camera. Would anybody like to see his picture? (Nina deleted the picture.) They did let us in without further incident. Next stop ~ Dawson Creek, British Columbia the beginning of the Alaskan Highway. Oh yeah, I picked up three more bottles of bug wash, I am ready for those B52 sized mosquitoes in Canada and Alaska.