Day 7 – First day on the Alaska Highway (07/03/2009

)Our first day on the Alaska Highway was very nice; we drove 362 miles in 9 hours. The road is much better than I expected. We drove on part of the “Old Alaska Highway” and on the only original bridge left. I sure am glad they have improved the highway. We drove 60+ mph most of the day and very little traffic. We saw two bears, one brown and one black within one hundred yards of each other. They would have both been nice sized rugs (Nina took offense at this comment). We finished another book on cd and started another one. No cell phone service in this part of the country so when we got in the hotel we tried a video conference with the girls, we had good sound but no video. I checked MSN when I got to the hotel and found out Palin resigned today, dang one less reason to go to Alaska now. Nina hopes to map out another 300-mile trip tomorrow; we should have some nice side trips. We were surprised about the amount of oil wells Canada has, there are derricks all along the road. We have refigured the number of days and think it will be more like twelve instead of ten since we rerouted. Happy Fourth of July