Winnefred Mulligan

Click HERE for Google Map Driving on the Alaska - Canadian, or ALCAN , highway through the Rockies, we did not have any phone signal. Well, periodically we'd get maybe a random minute or so. We weren't able to post anything, but hopefully, you could see our location on our Garmin InReach Map . It's likely we'll be having more cellular "blackouts" in the coming days so don't be alarmed when I don't post anything. The past couple of days we have driven through some of the most amazing scenery. Winding, empty, roads through valleys with enormous snow-topped mountains on either side. Lots of wildlife. Lots of swollen rivers, winding through the valleys. There was very little traffic, mostly other RV's and tractor trailers. Last night, I drove until I had to rely on my headlights to see. That is, I drove til about midnight. It gets dark so late! We were trying to make it to Liard Hot Springs for the night. We were both looking forward to a nice...

We decided we would try to make it to Seward, AK, for the Fourth of July. Then we'll head up to Tuktoyaktuk, NT, Canada. Looks like they do a big celebration in Seward and they have city-owned RV campsites right on the waterfront. Not sure if we'll be early enough to get a spot, but we'll try. They don't take reservations. First come, first served. Also, if you're reading on your phone, you may not have noticed the link to our Garmin tracking site. We have a Garmin In-Reach satellite tracker. It pings our location automatically every 4 hours and plots it on a map shared online. We started it as soon as we crossed into Canada. Click on that link whenever you're curious about our current location. We pulled out of the Eagle River Casino parking lot around 6:30am, heading for Liard Hot Springs. We crossed into British Columbia and a sea of trees and mountains all around us. A herd of Caribou. Kind of far away though. We've seen lots of Moose crossi...

Here we are I wish I was with my parents to celebrate such an amazing milestone. "Age does not protect you from love.  But love, to some extent, protects you from age." Anais   Nin Anyway, we woke up and headed back into Lloydminster, 5 miles away. Our goal was to find a place to get our oil changed and transmission fluid changed. We let our laundry collect for a couple of days so we wanted to find a laundromat to do a catch up load.  We managed to do a load of laundry, after having to get Canadian quarters.  Canada Tire couldn't do it, their lifts could not manage our 6000 lb  motorhome. We looked around for a place like Jiffy Lube that has the pits that you drive over, not lifts. We found The Great Canadian Oil Change. Mostly, we liked the name ;-) They happily helped us out. Travis the manager, was properly impressed with our little rig so he scored points with us immediately. They checked her over, changed the engine oil and advised us ag...