Yes, we are now far north of Noble.  Actually more than 2000 miles north of Noble.  And we still have quite a ways to go.  Depending upon where one says the Alaska Highway starts, we may have been on it about half of today (Tuesday, August 6.)  Some say the Alaska Highway (AH) starts near Edmonton, Alberta.  Others say it starts in Dawson Creek, British Columbia.  We are about half way between.

So far the highway does not look like what I have heard about the AH.  The last few hours have been a nice four lane road with a speed limit of 110!  That is 110 k/hr.  And that is about 70 mph.  We are currently in a town of perhaps a couple thousand people with about that many semi's, at least it seems so.  Logging trucks, oil field trucks, Dorito trucks, Safeway trucks, and many trucks that I could not identify.  If you look on a map we are at Valleyview, Alberta.

Travel has been good.  We left Iowa City Friday, and that has been our warmest day.  It was 78 Degrees by the van thermometer.  Today has been the second warmest day, it was 77.  Yesterday in Saskatoon there was oodles of rain, which would have been fine except that is where we had planned to walk along the river.  We were more patient than the rain and were finally able to walk for about an hour.

The second command of God to Adam and Eve was to fill the earth and subdue it.  It is interesting to see how people are doing just that.  (It seems that by nature we obey this command, too bad we do not also obey God's other commands.)  People naturally subdue the earth.  We automatically make use of it.  Nearly always in good ways.  Sometimes we must learn the hard way that misusing God's good creation is not for our own good.  Along the way there have been many lakes - some the size of a house and some the size of a small town and others the size of a city.  The farmers plant their crops as close to the lakes as possible, harvest hay closer to the lakes, and just allow the reeds to grow still closer to the lakes.  Cattle and horses graze on the land too steep or rocky to plant crops.  Where farming is not possible the trees are harvested.  In and among all of this oil is pumped from the ground.  God has given us a good earth with sufficient abundance for the billions of people.

This is a canola field.  Some fields seem to stretch for miles while others, in the midst of many little lakes, are about the size of a basketball court.

This is a flax field.  Out of the corner of our eye flax fields look like the sky or a lake.

Elva and I have a bit of a farm background and find the whole farming situation very interesting.  Many towns have huge equipment dealerships with big inventory.  It seems in the US most dealers only have a small inventory.  And yes, right next to each other are the dealers for all the colors.  We are now too far north for corn, except in gardens.  A farm wife managing a travel information center said the crops are a couple weeks late this year, there was snow the second week of May.

This is the end of day five after leaving Iowa City.

Thanks for your interest.

God is good.

Larry and Elva