Driving the same route is not much fun. After tomorrow, everything will be new. I didn’t take but five or six pictures
today. We are back in farming
country. There are huge fields of wheat
or barley that have been cut and baled.
These fields are gold. Nearby
fields are lush green. The contrast in
colors is very pretty. There are
pastures with herds of cows and some horses.
The road between Dawson Creek and Edmonton is mostly a four-lane divided
highway but it is rough. If you drive
the speed limit of 110 kph (68 mph), your head may hit the ceiling when you hit a dip or
bump in the road.
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| Fields of gold and fields of green |
We are off the Alaska Highway now. We saw a sign in the museum in Dawson Creek
that perfectly describes the highway. It
dips and curves. We were told that the
engineers in 1942 went around obstacles rather than through them so the road is
curvy. If they had to dynamite a
mountain, they took off only enough to make room for the road. It’s a long road but I wouldn’t take anything
for having seen it and driven it.
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