July 18, 19, 20, 21

ON THE ROAD AGAIN ...

Mile O of the Alaska Highway in

Dawson Creek, British Columbia

Alicia from CJDC TV in Dawson Creek interviewed us in the motorhome.

It was a busy time for Home Hardware store drop in visits.

We dropped in at R. Home Supply Centre Home Hardware in Dawson Creek and met Rock Petric and staff.

We signed cookbooks at the Spirit River Home Hardware Store in Spirit River, Alberta. We had met Doreen Solli at the Home Hardware Market in St Jacobs. She invited us to drop in to her store where we met her husband, Earl and her daughter, Sue. We sold four cookbooks before the ink was dry.

We stopped in McLennan, Alberta, and met Bruce, Jay, and Cam Brulotte at the McLennan Home Hardware Store.

At Pops Hardware and Building Centre in High Prairie, Alberta, the staff all came out to see the motorhome and for a photo opportunity.

We saw many logging trucks and canola fields along the way.

Troy Adams from THE FOX 850 AM CKBA and Andrew de Souza from the Athabasca Advocate interviewed us at the RV Park in Athabasca, Alberta. Andrew also dropped in when were visited the Athabasca Home Hardware Building Centre to sign books.

Road Crew Ruth shortened a pair of Phyllis' slacks.

We left Athabasca for Fort McMurray. Everyone warned us about the crazy, speeding drivers and dangers of Highway #63. On the way out of Athabasca, before we even made the turn north onto highway #63, a truck threw a rock and cracked our windshield.

We stopped for diesel fuel at Grassland and put patches on the windshield crack to try to stop it from spreading. While we were there, a trucker came over because his mother loves watching us on RVTV. We signed our column in RV Lifestyle magazine for him to give to his mother. He also warned us not to take highway #63.

With trepidation, we turned up highway #63. There was some construction but it was a good paved road with lots of trucks and no crazy drivers.

We arrived in Fort McMurray all in one piece.