(Caron Creek BC): Goal: slow, relaxing day – we met that. Hardly any traffic today until we hit the cities. Now we have a 4 lane highway most of the time. So, we are learning how to negotiate the city quirks. Less wildlife today – see below. From the time we left camp until 2 ½ hours of winding roads, we did not have the power cord connected to the 5th wheel. This means we had no lights but worse still we had no breaking control. Once we discovered our dilemma, we crawled for the next 6 miles looking for somewhere to safely pull off and solve the problem. Yikes!!!! When we left Anchorage, I hadn’t secured the plug tightly. What with all the bouncing up and down it had jiggled it self loose. So, we survived and learned another lesson. Cell service still on/off but no air card.
We pulled into RV park early. The first attractive, green, welcoming park since Tok. We put up the awning for the first time since leaving Alaska, did some laundry and used the parks showers - incredible. Roomy, lots of water pressure - it was heaven!
Other observations – Little to no traffic until we hit the “cities.” We saw a peregrine falcon, llamas, waterfalls, lots of iris, lupine, and dead black fir trees (someone told us why but we have forgotten) and lots of farm land. We were camped near the rail and trains seem to run very regularly but we were too tired to care.
We gave Karma ginger today which seems to have helped. We think besides the stress, she gets car sick – no throwing up but you see she was “green around the gills” so to speak. We are hoping this will work.
