DAY 2 THE TRAVELLERS...

More noos from Sarah

In 2007, when Thomas and I did this trip before, when we arrived at the Tahkini Hot Springs, there was an internet café there – not so this time.  I was all prepared to send letters out then, but I couldn’t.  L  At the Whitehorse church where we stayed the internet was passworded.  The boys (Russell & Seth) who are staying there claimed they didn’t know the password, but I could borrow their itouch if I wanted to.  I decided to only write Richard. 

When we arrived in Whitehorse, we were greeted by John and Betsy Troyer and Seth Rotundi and Russell Stendal Jr. who live at theWhitehorse (Sonrise Center) church.  We ate pasta and salad with them.  That was very nice!

After supper, Thomas decided to stay at the church to catch some sleep so I took all our kids to the hot springs.  Russell, Seth, Andrew, and Elizabeth Porter came too.  We sooooooo enjoyed the hot springs!  Thankfully, everyone was tired after that.

This morning we were packed and in the van by 6:30 am; the kids quickly sacked out again.  The Troyers supplied us with muffins, dry cereal, and milk for breakfast; we brought our own hearty granola 

The roads were very nice till the Muncho Lake area where  the road is narrow and curvy.  It has literally poured on us off and on all day.  Again, we had a hard time finding somewhere to stop for lunch.  We finally came across a place called whirlpool rapids.  And, as before, there were no tables so out came the trusty garbage bag/table cloth.  Seeing there weren’t any bathrooms at our great picnic place, everyone ran to the woods before climbing into the car. 

It was here that Bethany slipped on some rocks and slashed the top of her right foot by the ball.  There are several slashes, one being much deeper than the others.  Seth and May kicked into action, cleaning and bandaging the wound as best they could with our primitive supplies (using all our drinking waters to rinse the wound).  We’ve doped Bethany with ibuprophen, and she seems to be ok for now. 

Anyway, we still have about four more hours in the car.  We will call Headwaters from Ft. Nelson; I think they will have something for us to eat there. 

The travelers are all well behaved – I know! What did I expect?  The walkie talkie thing is working out well for us and the car that’s traveling with us. 

We finally saw some wildlife, but Tom wasn’t inclined to stop to let me get pictures.  We saw some buffalo, caribou, Canadian geese, ravens, sheep or goats, and a deer (just for Kevin).  One buffalo was so close to the road that I could have petted him from my car window if I hadn’t been so busy trying to get a picture with my lens cap cover on.

More later, Sarah