The Beginning in the middle of our trip

We strolled into Dawson Creek, British Columbia sometime today around early afternoon. And here is where the Alaskan Highway begins. O I can't wait, it was only 5 years ago that we were here in this same town after 3 or 4 days of rain and now the sun is out and we can enjoy it. Now for an update on the trip since Whitefish. We left white fish on a fairly cold morning just to hit rain again only miles from the statepark. Sometime around the late morning hours, we rolled up to the canadian border and were all let through into canada without showing any paperwork what so ever. Apparently, they knew everything about us by our license plate before we even spoke a word to one anonther. Ah, who cares we are in beautiful British Columbia now. From the moment we crossed the border everything seemed to somehow brighten up or get more beautiful if you will. I am not sure if it was the presentation of the scenary or what but I noticed a big difference from the lower forty-eight. We continued on hitting patches of rain and finally stopped for some excellent bacon and swiss burgers in Scookumchuck. After we let yet another shower pass us we continued on to Radium Springs which was the town right outside of Kootenay NP. We got into kootenay and O how fun the roads were super twistys and we were riding inbetween mountains only feet from the edge of the road. Then we came to the Visitors Lodge to get a Pin and relieve ourselves. Pretty Ridilicious, we found out that only weeks after we had come through kootenay 5 years ago the park was set a blaze by lighting and burned a major part of the park. Turns out the park was closed for the rest of the summer and the remains were devestating to say the least. Now it was off to Banff NP and then Lake Louise. We stayed in Lake Louise with a sweet electric Bear fence so we all slept a little easier. The next morning was o so ridilicious, we started out riding through the rest of Banff and witnessed many jagged mountains and frozen glaciers and then made it to Jasper NP. All three of these parks are connected so we had about 250 or 300 miles of undescrible scenary. After Jasper we booked it to Grande Cache where it was the only town for 120 miles in any direction. Talk about isolated. After some world cup action this morning we left Grande Cache and headed for Grande Prairie. Jim mentioned "grande prairie" is a paradox in itself. haha. We had lunch at Burger King our way. Then we made it to Dawson Creek and here we are now at mile marker "0" for the alaskan highway. We are getting in the sticks now so posts are going to be far and few between, but we will try to update when possible. Peace for now.