After leaving Valdez we passed this water fall.  I beleive that there is one special water fall for every person in Alaska or Canada.  This water fall was one of Patsy's favorite. 

River boats abounded in Alaska and the Yukon Territory back then.  I think I read where there was six hundred of them of all sizes.  This one could float in as little of thiry inches of water.  There are no true steam driven river boats left now.  What paddle wheelers there are all diesel driven.  The Klondike shown here ran from the sea to here at Whitehorse some I think fifteen hundred miles. 

This is the obervation deck and in back of me is the dinning room.  I would  liked to go back in time and have the experience of traveling on this ship. 

Grampa and Grandma out standing in their field.  What more can we say.

P<>S.  These sunflowers remind us of the smiley faces of our Grand Children

We stopped at a large park in Edmonton and they had some large gardens of flowers and trees.  Some we didn't get to go through because of a wedding.  Mom said it made her trip.  There were flowers we had never heard of or seen, but they were all beautifu beyond description.  

We visited a replica of a Hudson Bay Fort.  The buildings and everything in them are all made the same way they were made in eighteen sixty four.  All the buildings were completly furnished,  It was amazing the detail and accuracy of every item.  They had a steam train and an electric trolley that ran around town you could ride.  They had three authentic streets.  One was eighteen sixties, one eighteen ninties and another around the nineteen twenties. 

We also went to the Edmonton mall.  The largest in North America.  It's much larger than the Mall Of America in Minnesota.  We spent two days exploring Edmonton.  We looked hard for a street that was straight for more than two blocks.  We did spend two nights at the Hilton which we enjoyed. 

After Edmonton we saw a few Russian Orthodox Churches along the way.  This one had a next grave yard next to it with words we couldn't understand, the dates were ok but thats all.  From Grand Paririe all the way to Minneapolis Minnesota the land is flat.  You can see for a hundren miles in any dirrection.  It is beautiful as it is green.  They have had so much rain this summer that they can't get their hay up and the grain is still green unable to be harvested.  From Edmonton north and through Alaska for four weeks we saw only three police cars.  I don't know how long it would have taken for one to come if you had an accident.  There are very few cars on the roads to begin with, and after about four or five in the evening you may not meet a car for ten or twenty miles and the later it gets even less cars that that.  You are pertty much on your own. 

The pictures and the words that are on our blog does not in any way tell a small part of the experience we have had in making this trip.  On ever turn there were new scenes to look at and wonder.  The vastness and scope of it all can't be comprehended until you can feel and experience it yourself. We would say that the people of Canada and Alaska Welcomed us and made us feel as if we were home.  We felt at Fairbanks a sense of belonging, but not sure what winter would bring.  As we waited for a train to take me to a minning camp to pan for gold some one asked the conductor how they could stand the long dark winter nights.  He replied, easy, we work hard the three short summer months and when you all go home we play.  There is no traffic so snow mobiles ATV's and dog sleds can go anywhere and travel for miles and days without  interference form anything.  We live it up he said.