Road to Tok

6-23-09

We learned that the “blanket toss” started with the native people as a way to spot game in the treeless tundra, and all this time we thought it was just a game for kids.

I will attach a picture of Margaret in her mosquito gear. We laughed when we first saw it , but there have been several times we wish we had it to use. Tonight we are not being bothered, apparently its to cold for them.

The last two days have been the worst roads we have driven. There are lots of frost heaves, some are marked and some just sneak up on you. At times our average speed was down to 25 MPH. If you don’t see them ahead of time it really bounces the RV’s around. You go through an area where they are lots of them and then hit a stretch where there are none luring you to increase your speed and then surprise, you find another one.

Bob and Pat were traveling by themselves until this afternoon when we met them again in Tok, yep that’s the name of a town. We are spending the name in a roadside rest with a wonderful view of snow covered mountains again. The view is magnificent. We are up 1000 feet high above a large valley which has three lakes that I can see, and then across that to the mountains. I don’t think the pictures do it justice.

Today I filled the MH for only $302 a gallon, a big improvement over the Canadian prices. As of tonight we are 3375 miles from home. We intend to go to Valdez tomorrow.

As I was typing we saw two moose in one of the lakes I mentioned. We are some distance from them, but with the binoculars they are easy to see. They are wadeing in knee deep water and feeding on the bottom. Too far away for a meaningful picture. I will try to attach a picture taken at 3:30 AM to show how dark it is here

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