If you take the Fairbanks rout...don't forget to stop and see Santa!! Drive Careful no major snow in the forcast...in fact...it is almost shorts weather.

Good morning Plumma, I have had my first coffee, you are running late this morning. Be on the road shortly, first light!

Saw a great sign yesterday, pugt up by the Mounties. In huge letters it said "Those in favor of not getting speeding tickets, riase your right foot".

You mean - 1st lite (8 AM)?
I decided to sleep in 'til 6 this morning. Sorry I missed you. That was a lot of miles for one day - not being in a rush. I thought, maybe, you would do some gold panning with Jasper and the Cariboo....what a rush. Found a lot of names involved with Hat Creek, but none that start with "Jasper". I give - was it a movie that I missed?

With the "snow load" we've experienced in AK, you will, probably, need new studs by the time you get here. If studs were made of carbon steel, they would survive the trip and then some.
Safe travels, please, and shoot some animals - it's easier to shoot if you slow below 91 mph....just a tip.

So - you're still here?

You boys meet like this every morning? be careful. your wives might wonder who your meeting on line at 6 am....hehe

I would love to go hunting with you! I have been thinking about church steeples lately...I think I might start a photo project.

So you should be home shortly...why?

Hey heidi we missed them for coffee...guess the early bird gets the worm...

Stan I have to agree with you about taking up shooting old buildings. With us moving soon we will be living in an area with old buildings aplenty and it has already sparked my imagination. Growing up here in Alaska those are one of the things you miss. One house we looked at was built in the EARLY nineteen hundreds and when I asked the real estate agent if this is why the house was so cheap (A five bedroom with den and dining room for 50,000) she remarked that most of the houses were that old! It was just out of the city! The kids are excited because they think they will find a house that is haunted!
I also am considering a collection of tombstones pictures. I remember the cemeteries being quite beautiful and bountiful down there!
I am really excited about the difference in subject!

This is a very nice motel, but it has me a little concerned! I just went out for an evening smoke since I am restricted to non smoking room. Had to pass through three locked access doors to get back to my room, even the front door is key card locked! So much for the neighborhood! Plumma, as far as I know you are the only one that tried to solve the trivia question about Jasper, Pea and Hat Creek Ranch. Your only reference could have been Heath. In the movie "Lonesome Dove" after driving their cattle from Texas to Montana, they called their ranch the Hat Creek Ranch named after a river in Texas. Although, the author (Larry McMultry) or something like that got it slightly wrong since the Hat Creek Ranch that I saw was about a 600 miles north of Montana. As for the previous trivia question that showed a house and drive inn movie, Shana almost got it right, it was our old house in Oak Harbor on Trush, hovever the carport had been converted into a garage and the exterior had been refinished. The other picture that she thought was a candy shop, was the projectionist booth and snack shed at the drive in movie in Oak Harbor, they saw Star Wars I at the "Cow Pasture Drive Inn" while I was on my last trip to the far east

Yeah, this is the leg I was supposed to advise you on. Did you see many deer along this road?
Theyve been known to thick as ticks. First time I drove that, I could have kissed the lot lizard in Charlie Lake. There were not any to kiss, but I was glad not to have hit bambi.

We did see alot of deer, but none along he road they were allholding up inthe hay fields This is part of the higway I want to drive again. Great scenery, good road, little gtraffic - could spend a couple of days.