Canada

We crossed the border into Canada in Sweetwater, Montana. It took about an hour for all three of us to "pass." After all the horror stories about what we could and could not take they never asked any of us about plants, fruits, vegetables, chicken or eggs! Just mace, liquor and tobacco. Didn't search any of our rigs. Roger had to go inside and pay $2.00 for his shotgun and Dan gave up the extra chewing tobacco he had rather than pay $600 import tax - which he called "sin" tax! He later realized he should have given all of us some to bring in for him!

We were first in line and the agent asked us how long we were going to be in Canada - Roger responded "about a month, just passing through on the way to Alaska." When he asked Dan the same question he answered "about a week." When he asked Gary he said "about 4 days." The guy said "if you are all traveling together you might want to discuss you're plans!"

Lethbridge Trestle  RR Bridge

There is an historic site in the area of the previous Blackfoot Nation called " Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump" - must be a good story behind that name! We passed through Calgary - didn't stop - the "Stampede" isn't until July! The scenery was all plains until we left Whitecourt, Alberta then there were trees -similar to upper Michigan - but nothing spectacular YET!

We met up with Tommy and Dorothy, the 4th couple in our group, in Dawson Creek, BC today. We'll be here for two days, regroup, and head north again. We thought BC meant British Columbia - silly us - it really means "Bring Cash!" Everything is very expensive but if you consider the ratio of the US dollar to Canadian money we get about a 20% discount. Roger called to make a tee time for golf - $45 for golf but another $40 to rent a cart!

Dawson Creek, British Columbia