South Dakota here we come!

Leaving Portland & on our way to S. Dak, going up up the beautiful Columbia River, stopped @ Multnomah Falls and had a wonderful lunch in "Iris" she is glad to be back on the road again!Another beautiful day sun shining bright we have had wonderful weather since we left home.We passed over the Columbia River in Wash & spent the nite in Walmart parking lot. Got up had breakfast  & ready to roll on about 20 miles NE of Pasco Wa we ran into a big veg & fruit stand course we had to stop we were in heaven fresh corn on the cob & fruit it was wonderful.That nite we stayed in another Walmart parking lot in  Montana, thanks for Walmarts they are wonderful to dry camp in. Got up & on to Wyoming  we went into little big horns battlefield monument where the battle between Custer & the Indians took place it was just closing so will have to hit it another time, we saw a lot of deer & buffalo & skunk on this day. Spent the nite in Sheridan Wy. Got up next morning & on to S.Dak.Saw a lot of prairie dog towns , we stopped and saw the Devils tower national monument  1,280 ft above the Belle Fourche River, became the nations 1st National monument Belle Fourche river carved most of the landscape that exposed Devils Tower.What a wonderful site to see I said we need to get the Devils Tower & the Devils Thumb from around rainbow mountain in Alaska together! We made it to Rapid City & Rods brothers house they have such a pretty place & he made a pad for "Iris" with full hook ups what a guy huh!! It is wonderful, they have horses and all kinds of game, Annie & Bear want to get some of those turkeys running around in their yard & so do I so I can put one in the frying pan.  We are now off to the boys hunting grounds on their farm they are all excited to get started, it took us about 5 hours to get there and what a nice little town they grew up in. We have a lot to look at on the way back as we did not want to take the time on the way. Hope you all are having as much fun as we are and enjoying life Rod says we still have goose shit on top of "Iris" so we are right on track be safe and take care.

On our way down the Alcan to "America"

10-1-2010


Headed down the road to "America" we started out loading the Yukon & had to rent a small U haul to get everything in got the house winterized & things packed & are heading out. Left at 5 got to Tok @ 8:30 had supper @ Fast Eddies nice place to eat. Good motel for 76.00 a nite. Got up the next morning & headed on out just out of Haines junction we saw a beautiful heard of elk 3 sm bulls & 1 pointer 1 satellite bull he was 5 pointer. Stayed the nite in Whitehorse , population of about 22,000 checked in @ a motor in 132.00 nite getting higher can't wait to get "Iris".

Next day headed to Watson Lake saw a big heard of buffalo near lower post, also later in the evening when it was getting dark we seen a big heard of elk. Stayed @ Fort Nelson that nite 152.00 @ supper 8 getting higher & gas is about 5 to 7 bucks a gallon, Canada is beautiful but very high.Got up & headed to Prince George another beautiful day sun shinning could not ask for more saw 5 moose 4 deer hit Dawson City at 3:00 PM went thru round about saw the man pointing N but this is not where we want to be we want South where we can keep goose shit on our roof "Rod" says & he says we are on Schedule . On to Prince George out of Chetyland we saw a black bear .on to the Fraser River Valley what a beautiful site British Columbia is wonderful got thru the Fraizer & on are way to the American border landed at the border @ 7:42 so good to be back on American soil. Spent the nite in Bellvue Wa and got up the next day to spring "Iris" out of storage & load her up take trailer back & on our way to Dan's Nancy we are staying in a RV park close to them & it is a wonderful Rv park it is RV Park of Portland. We plan on taking out of here on Oct 11 headed to South Dakota so till them everyone be happy & safe.

Getting Ready to go to America

We are just about ready to leave almost done packing getting the house winterized Friday morning the 1st and as soon as that is finished then we are leaving for the border might not get all that far the 1st day as it will be kinda late getting out of here but we will make up for it the next day, we are excited and can't wait to get  Iris and get our things put into her, Bear & Annie are all ready to go. We heard that it is snowing at Tok & White Horse so will be glad to get going and get thru this. Am putting pictures on of our Alaska children & Grand Children may they stay safe well and Happy when we are gone we love you all very much.

"IRIS"

We did it we found "IRIS" and what a beauty she is we flew down to Fountain Hills Arizona the 9th of August to inspect her flew into mesa got a rent a car and a motel room checked to see where the RV place was & went over and looked at her from the out side we knew then she was a keeper. Went the next day inspected her fell in love & drove off the lot with her, returned the car spent the nite in the wall mart parking lot & got up the next morning & headed to Portland to leave her in storage till we get back to "America" we put 1500 miles on "Iris" and she even camped at the bottom of the  Grand Canyon & Joni put her feet in the Columbia river. We stopped in Lake Oswego & saw the kids & grand kids for a day then flew back home to get house ready for the winter. More to com.........

Anchorage Trip in July

The middle of July Rod & I loaded the motor home & headed to Anchorage Alaska, visited with Kristine and had a wonderful time with her

Her had her gall bladder operated on so we were able to be there for her for that. When we were there we took her over to Whittier Alaska a small little fishing village with a population of about 3,000 in the Summer and down to about 250 in the winter, if you never have visited this little Switzerland of America you need to, it steals your heart

On our way to America:)

This will be the very beginning of our travels on our way to America via the Alaskan Highway, when our travels begin then we will be back to post our adventures till then keep our blog handy so you can follow us as we go have FUN:)  This is some of the people in America we are going to see our "Great Friends"