A Day of Bumps

Yes, bumps, as in I hope  the van holds up okay.  They say the problem is the frost in the ground.  Some of the ground we drove over today is like the ground loess hills in western Iowa.  Here, when the ground under pavement freezes and thaws it becomes somewhat soupy and is pushed out both sides of the road.  That then leaves a big dip in the road.  Some of these dips were about a yard deep and a couple car-lengths long.  Other times the subsoil pushes out only one side of the road and that side sinks.  Not all dips were a yard deep but most were 20 or so inches.  They were working to repair the roads but did not finish soon enough as far as we were concerned.  That was the last couple hundred miles in Canada.  When we crossed into Alaska the road was much better.

We are now in Delta Junction.  This is the official end of the Alaska Highway.  Some say it  continues to Fairbanks.

The story goes that two Alaska mosquitoes were in a tent about ready to attack the inhabitants.  One asked, "Shall we get our meal here or carry them outside first."  The other replied, "We better eat them here or the big mosquitoes will take them away from us!"  These in the picture were about 8 feet tall.

The mountains in Canada were very pretty today.  There was neat fog.  Snow on the top of some.  And there were beautiful blue lakes.

 Fog below us in the valley.

 There are more glaciers on the other side of these.  That would be the side toward the Pacific  Ocean.

  One lake was 92 miles long and usually about 2 miles wide.

God has  made all things beautiful.  We can enjoy these and still accept the dips and bumps in the road.  Life will have both the difficult and the beautiful.

Tomorrow we have about  1 hour and 30 minutes to travel to Fairbanks.