Dawson Creek - Mile 0

We had a long day of driving on Tuesday, July 23.  We started in Jasper, and before we had gone 50 miles, we saw baby bighorn sheep and baby mountain goats.

As we traveled through Grande Cache, we saw a huge coal mine with an accompanying power plant.  It was very impressive.

Right after Grande Cache, we saw a black bear, a deer, and many elk.  That was a successful day.

Through the prairies we headed, and Grande Prairie could have been Wichita.  Because of the oil boom, houses are being built like crazy.  We saw moms walking their babies, many shopping centers . . . much like home.

Then we arrived at Mile 0.  Don is fascinated with the Alcan Highway, so we had to get multiple pictures of the Mile 0 marker.  Impressive that this highway was built in 8 months . . . it probably could not be done that way now.  He has been so looking forward to getting on this road.  I hope it lives up to his expectations.

We have traveled 2990 miles to this point.  We have 1300 more to go to get to Alaska.  That's a lot of gasoline and a lot of hours in the Willie!