Today we bid farming goodbye. We did see one farm of perhaps 100 acres. Otherwise we saw trees and trees and trees. My estimate is that we saw several billion trees, maybe even more. All the mountains are covered with trees. The mountains here are not high enough to be above sea level. Most of the trees are very narrow and tall, so many of them fit in one acre.
By all accounts, we are for sure on the Alaska Highway now. Dawson Creek, Alberta, has a museum of the AH and its history. The first ideas of a land connection between the lower 48 states and Alaska started over 100 years ago. It took a war, WWII, to convince Canada and the US to cooperate building the highway. It was feared that Japan was going to attack Alaska (and then all of North America) and a land route there was needed to transport supplies there to defend our northern territory.
There is still much logging and oil production. God has provided a rich abundance of resources which human intelligence allows us to tap into. We cannot create it. As some poet said, only God can make a tree. We can use the tree and the oil but we are dependent upon the world God created to supply not only our needs but many of our wants as well.
Our path became more northward today. We are at Fort Nelson, British Columbia. We still have about 1200 miles to go. We praise God for safety.
God's blessing to you.
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Bye ---
Larry
Only 1200 miles to go! Paula says you must be "pushing it" every day! Prayers for your safety in traveling!
ReplyDeleteI haven't looked up Ft Nelson, BC on a map. Are you near the coast, or more inland? So, approximately how far (or for how many hours) do you travel each day?
ReplyDeletePaula