Roadtrek to Alaska: A Long Ride Through the Bush

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July 14

The road we are on goes across the top of Ontario. The other road we could have taken continued along the shore of Lake Superior and would have been more populated (with apologies to Robert Frost, the road more travelled?), with beach towns and resorts (looks kind of like Maine), but we have been missing the Alaska-Yukon bush a little so are glad to see it again. Today, we saw lots of it, mile after mile with no villages or wildlife, just a lot of trailer trucks. We started early to get in a lot of miles, as we have used up our cushion of extra days with car repairs. When I got up I took this photo of sunrise over Lake Kenogamisis.

When we stopped for gas a few minutes later in Longlac I spotted this lovely little church sitting out on a point on the lake. Looks like it needs a little work, though.

One thing I have learned is that every single day, no matter how boring you think it will be, something interesting, funny or just plain weird shows up. When we got through the long stretch with no gas, towns, etc, we stopped in Hearst for some gas. This sign was on the gas pump.

A bit later we passed through Moonbeam, a town that this aging hippie just knew she was gonna love, and when we saw this spaceship I knew I was right!

We were rolling merrily along through Mattice, and there was this dinosaur just sitting beside someone's house, in the yard.

I was happy to see that we are back in the land of beautiful roadside flowers.

We again crossed the Continental Divide, but the signs were the same as yesterday. That thing sure is curvy! Finally, we were nearing our goal for the day, and there was this polar bear in the town of Cochrane.