Stopped for the night in Devon, Alberta, a small community just south of Edmonton, Alberta (population 600,000+). Suzie took us right through Edmonton using a bypass route, first time that I have ever been in Edmonton that we did not get lost. I think I love her! Pulled out of Ft Nelson a little after eight this morning, a beautiful sunny day with temps in the 50's. Brother Bill forgot to warn me about the truck traffic between Ft. Nelson and Ft.St John - I mean like convoys of trucks but the roads were great although there is quite a bit of construction. Did get Suzie confused and got lost on the turn about in Dawson Creek while trying to find the Alcan Monument, but on the second attempt we were successful. Drove a total of 639 miles today, a little further than I wanted to but we will be in the U.S. tomorrow! We are now, 2,205.6 miles from Anchor Point.

We have driven over 2,000 miles of wilderness, was able to see a great variety of wildlife yesterday but we have yet to see a bear! However, while driving south of Dawson Creek on a four lane divided highway, we saw our first bear, a small black bear feeding alongside the highway. The other specie that we have not yet seen is a moose! Although, we did see three road kills today but I guess they don't count nor does the roadkill coyote that we saw. We are slowly catching up with fall but we also caught up with the migrating geese. In Dawson Creek, any direction you looked in the sky we could see flocks of geese and later saw a lot of them sitting in the harvested wheat fields. I am sure Bill will be interested, but we also saw the biggest beaver I have ever seen - got a couple of good pictures which I will post someday before the trip is over.

The gas prices and converting to the metric system is still driving me nuts, but tonight I found a way to take some of the bite out of the cost of the gas. As of tonight, it has cost us .26 cents per mile for gas, actually a little less because I still have 3/4 of tank left from an earlier filler up stop. Looking at it in that light, it really is not to bad and the cost will continue to decline as we move into the cheaper gas in the good old U.S. of A. We did gas up at Safeway in Dawson Creek today, granny had her Safeway points and they took off 7 cents a gallon, but it was still over $4.00 a gallon!

Things are going great, Dutch has settled in and has become a very good traveler, starting to learn to read the road map and listen to Suzie's voice. I think I love her, but I want to keep it professional. Morning comes early, see you on down the road - love to all.