The Canadian North - What time is it?

 We left Tumbler Ridge this morning, not very early, come on, we are on vacation. Barb took the first leg of our 8 hour journey and we stopped at Dawson Creek. (Note: the TV show with the same name was not filmed here). First stop was at a very nice laundromat, we have been on the road for 16 days and yes we needed to get many of our clothes cleaned.  After the laundry was done, we crossed the street to a 60's diner for lunch.  Then it was time to hit the road again and heading for Edmonton, our last stop on this adventure. We have a week here at the 5 Pin Masters Championships, not really part of our vacation.  So we thought to close off this blog we would summarize our adventures. We left home 16 days ago, we have taken 6 different flights with one more coming to get us back home from Edmonton next week. Total Flights = 7 (Toronto -Edmonton, Edmonton -Whitehorse, Inuvik - Dawson City, Dawson City - Whitehorse, Whitehorse - Calgary, Calgary - Edmonton, Edmonton - To...

We spent today with Rob and Paula, their two sons Colby and Aaron and of course their dog Talon. They made a nice breakfast for us, then took us on a road trip to Kinuseo Falls, about 60Km away from Tumbler Ridge.  The road initially reminded me of our drive on the Dempster Highway, but then it got much worse. I was glad Rob was driving and we were in his truck. He has the experience to drive this road. Had I been driving we would have taken about 3 more hours and that is only if I didn't lose it into a ditch. We did see a couple of black bears on our way. These falls are not as large as Niagara Falls, but they are taller. The mountain run off is occurring here and the rivers are swollen and running very fast. As we parked and walked down to the viewing site at the top of the falls, you can only imagine the power of this river as the water narrows and rushes over these falls. We didn't try going down to a path below the falls, it was very steep and would have been a difficult c...

 We arrived late last night in Edmonton as we expected, finally into our hotel room by 1:30am. This morning we were up again for the 7+ hour drive to Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia to visit with Barb's friends Paula, Rob and their son Colby. They haven't seen each other for nearly 20 years! It was a great reunion! Coming out of Edmonton we realized that the area around Edmonton is very flat, reminding me of the time I drove through the Prairies with my closest friend as a teenager.  The road is long, straight and frankly boring compared with the roads we have travelled through the mountains. Tumbler Ridge is a small town in the Northern BC mountains, a very nice, quiet community. On our travels we passed many signs warning to watch for wildlife.  Now this is somewhere we would see animals for sure. We did see one killed deer that was hit on the side of the highway and one other farther down the road all in Alberta.  Got some pictures of the scenery from our Alberta ...

So, we are back on the grid and currently sitting in the Whitehorse International Airport.  Our plan was to make an update tonight when we got to Edmonton, but when we arrived here, we were informed that there was a slight delay in our flight.  2 1/2 hours!!!  SLIGHT???     Anyway that is the way travel goes, so rather than making this update tonight at 1am, I'm doing it now. How was the vacation you ask?  Amazing. Our original booking was at the Mount Logan Lodge and we got to visit this place.  Very nice place, lots of trees and while you could see some mountains, there were a lot of trees around.  The lodge itself is quite the building, and they have some cabins out of the main building as well, including this Yurt.  It would have been a nice place to spend a couple of quiet days, however their building upgrades are still waiting for inspection approval, so we were offered to stay at the Yukon Lakes Cabins with the same owner from the...