AK Adventure-10/6/07

Today is the 7th, and I'm updating for two days due to sparse connection capabilities.
10/6/07
Starting to see a lot of steep downhills now, and some with snow on them. One thing we did learn very quickly. When reaching the bottom of a steep mountain, you can actually get your 28 foot RV on two wheels for a couple of seconds. The weight of the trailer with the car on it drops the RV down to all four again quickly. :)
Of all of the times Pam and I have been tourists ourselves, driving behind RV's waiting for a chance to get around them, we are now the ones people want to get around....complete with horns and hand gestures. This makes us realize more and more that we need to slow down, for we are moving to a part of the country where we cannot bring our hurry-up lifestyles we are so used to. We need to slow down and blend in. This is the only way we will fit in to the area we are moving to. We did reach a couple of milestones today.....we are well over halfway, and we've crossed the Canadian boarder. As we crossed the boarder we realized that we are no longer members of the lower 48. As you will see in a couple of photos, this is truly the land where the buffalo roam, and the deer and the antelope play. Makes us want to get out of our vehicle, sit on a bail, and chew on a weed....sittin there on that sack of seeds. The Polson area was beautiful, and it totally reminded of us our honeymoon place Lake Tahoe. When we did cross the boarder the boarder patrol gave us no problems at all, but he was about to. Sahara and McKinley kept barking at him, and he was going to get a little more investigative unless we were able to calm them down. They are really looking at this RV as their home, and they are willing to protect it. That's good, because it is our home. We made it to Ft. Steel, British Columbia where we stayed the night. Very nice 65 degree weather, and dry. Pam made her turkey chili in the RV tonight. Took about a half hour to take effect. Pam's chili in an RV isn't necessarily the best idea. But, as long as both of us were eating it, no finger pointing. I think the chili had a reverse effect on the bears...it likely repelled them instead of attracting them.
That's it for today.
We miss you all very much, and love you equally. The only hard part of the trip so far is we're missing the baseball playoffs. We should be able to catch the second half of the postseason when we get to Anchorage.
Love,
Bob and Pam