Again up and out early to pressure wash the RV before heading off to Dawson Creek, BC, which is the starting point for the great Alaskan Highway! Made advance reservations for tonight at the Northern Lights Campground as Dawson Creek is often crowded with campers gathering in caravans to travel to Alaska. It took us until 11:45 to wash the RV!
Two women stopped by as we were breaking camp and identified themselves as from Slippery Rock College in Slippery Rock, PA. They were on their way back from their Alaska visit and gave us a coupon book that offers a two for one price on many of the attractions in Alaska. The books can be bought at Safeway stores for $99 and they had used it and saved a lot but wanted to give the remaining portion of the book to someone and chose us! Very nice as there are some excellent deals there that we expect to use. One coupon would save the $99 but we got them for free! Stopped in Beaverlodge, AB for Diesel and we show averaging 14.6 mpg! Probably not a complete fill up but I have been holding the speed way down to around 50 mph and expected an improvement but not that much!
We got to Dawson Creek and the Milepost Zero marker on the Alaskan Highway at mileage 20330.
We started home at 17104 so we took 3,226 miles to get to the start of the Alaska Highway and it’s about 1700 miles long although we will go longer via Northwest Territories and Dawson City.
When setting up camp noticed that we had somehow lost the pull strap for the awning over one of the bedroom windows. Can’t figure how it came off but after trying to locate a replacement at three RV parts places in Dawson Creek, Pat decided we could make one and we did using some sewing materials from Wal-Mart for about $5. Used an antique crochet hook that just fit into the slot in the awning retaining space to loop the upper loop around. We hit the Dawson Creek visitor’s center and got a good BC map and some post cards then took photo op with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman in his scarlet tunic before touring the town on foot and getting DQ cones.
The weather is quite warm, in the mid 70’s! There is a 17-unit caravan of retired military personnel in the campground and one of their members gave us a magazine and application to join SMART (Special Military Active Retired Travel club). Trying to get to bed earlier tonight to get a good start on the Alaska Highway tomorrow.
Two women stopped by as we were breaking camp and identified themselves as from Slippery Rock College in Slippery Rock, PA. They were on their way back from their Alaska visit and gave us a coupon book that offers a two for one price on many of the attractions in Alaska. The books can be bought at Safeway stores for $99 and they had used it and saved a lot but wanted to give the remaining portion of the book to someone and chose us! Very nice as there are some excellent deals there that we expect to use. One coupon would save the $99 but we got them for free! Stopped in Beaverlodge, AB for Diesel and we show averaging 14.6 mpg! Probably not a complete fill up but I have been holding the speed way down to around 50 mph and expected an improvement but not that much!
We got to Dawson Creek and the Milepost Zero marker on the Alaskan Highway at mileage 20330.
We started home at 17104 so we took 3,226 miles to get to the start of the Alaska Highway and it’s about 1700 miles long although we will go longer via Northwest Territories and Dawson City.
When setting up camp noticed that we had somehow lost the pull strap for the awning over one of the bedroom windows. Can’t figure how it came off but after trying to locate a replacement at three RV parts places in Dawson Creek, Pat decided we could make one and we did using some sewing materials from Wal-Mart for about $5. Used an antique crochet hook that just fit into the slot in the awning retaining space to loop the upper loop around. We hit the Dawson Creek visitor’s center and got a good BC map and some post cards then took photo op with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman in his scarlet tunic before touring the town on foot and getting DQ cones.
The weather is quite warm, in the mid 70’s! There is a 17-unit caravan of retired military personnel in the campground and one of their members gave us a magazine and application to join SMART (Special Military Active Retired Travel club). Trying to get to bed earlier tonight to get a good start on the Alaska Highway tomorrow.
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