We left AK about four days ago and headed for home. The road was awful for the first couple of hundred miles but got better as we got further south. We got away from some of the permafrost and frost heave so that helped. The Cassiar highway south was for the most part an excellent road and the scenery was fantastic. We stopped off at Stewart BC/Hyder AK because that is where the bears can be viewed catching salmon. Problem!!!!!NO SALMON and ------NO BEARS.The salmon run is about a week or two late this year so I guess we missed that. We also drove 20 miles up a dusty gravel road to the Salmon glacier which was worth the 40 mile side trip to Stewart/Hyder. The ice field can be seen here in the pic for about 6 miles but actually extends back toward the west for something like 40 miles. Mind boggling!!!!!!
On down the Cassiar we saw this final pic of the seven sisters moutain formation and after looking at the pic we realized there are actually eight peaks so don't know why one sister didn't get counted!!
We are about 400 miles from the lower 48 so should be in Seattle area by the weekend and true civilization again with cell phone service and WiFi and WalMart and life is good. Time to go for now so see ya!

Finally got the picture thing to work so will add some pics that go back a few days.
This is some of the ice that has broken or calfed off the Columbia glacier near Valdez.
This is called a fish wheel and is sort of a ferris type wheel with a couple of baskets on it and as it rotates via paddle wheels in the water and as it does so it picks up any salmon that happen to get in it's way. The AK residents can get a permit to catch subsistance salmon for their families this way. The lady we worked for near Valdez took Dick and Lynne and Verla there to get some salmon while Kathleen and I were in IA at the funeral. Sorry to have missed that!!!!!!
A king salmon that got caught in the fish wheel wanted his picture taken with Dick.

Hi again,
We are having trouble with adding pictures to the blog so guess I'll just tell you where we are.
We are on the Cassier Highway about 150 north of Stewart in B.C. We will turn off at Stewart and drive west to Hyer, AK for our last stop in AK before heading home. The weather has been beautiful since we left AK for which we are praising the Lord. The scenery here is breathtaking! Everything is going just fine with the motorhome and car considering the condition of some of the roads we've been on, we are blessed. We stopped in Jade City today for a bit. Did you know that 70% of the world's Jade is from here? It was beautiful but pricey so we left it all here for the next traveler!

Hi again,
We are having trouble with adding pictures to the blog so guess I'll just tell you where we are.
We are on the Cassier Highway about 150 north of Stewart in B.C. We will turn off at Stewart and drive west to Hyer, AK for our last stop in AK before heading home. The weather has been beautiful since we left AK for which we are praising the Lord.

Hi again,
We are having trouble with adding pictures to the blog so guess I'll just tell you where we are.
We are on the Cassier Highway about 150 north of Stewart in B.C. We will turn off at Stewart and drive west to Hyer, AK for our last stop in AK before heading home. The weather has been beautiful since we left AK for which we are praising the Lord

Hi again,
We are having trouble with adding pictures to the blog so guess I'll just tell you where we are.
We are on the Cassier Highway about 150 north of Stewart in B.C. We will turn off at Stewart and drive west to Hyer, AK for our last stop in AK before heading home. The weather has been beautiful since we left AK for w

Monday morning and we are heading for home. We will be leaving the Al-Can and taking the Cassier highway soon. It will be very remote and won't have cell phone or email for about a week we guess. We plan to Stop at Hyer AK along the way and that will be the last we see of AK. What a kick this has been. We love you all and pray for you. Later, when we are out of the weeds.

Aug 1st
Oh my goodness what a week. We enjoyed a few days at Valdez and then on Friday evening we drove back to Audrey's the DRS work site to work for a few more days. On Sat. we were notified that Harv and Kathleen's mother passed away. Harv and Kathleen drove to Anchorage on Sunday night to fly to Iowa for the Funeral. They had to leave at 7:00pm Sunday night because the highway was scheduled to be closed from midnight until 6:00am for repair so had to be passed the constuction site before midnight. They left Anchorage about 9:30 Monday morning and arrived in Sioux City 10:pm The funeral was on Tues and the returned on Wed. Some very long days but praise the Lord mom is dancing with Jesus now and we are so thankful for her 92 years. While they were gone the Jones and I worked some for Audrey and rested some because the rain. We also went to the Copper river to the fish wheel and got 9 salmon so cleaned those and Audrey taught us how to smoke them and can them. We are taking a few home with us.
On Sunday our new granddaughter Hannah Elyse was born to our daughter in VA. So we have moch to be thankful for. They are all well and we can hardly wait to visit them again soon.
We left Valdez area this morning and are in Tok tonight and should be in Canada again tomorrow, headig for home. It will probably be another 3 weeks before we get there.
God is good all the time. Love Verla