We started the morning seeing caribou on the highway. Then one of our favorite highway attractions: being first in line at road construction. It's always fun to chat with the worker signalling when to drive on. Today was special: we scored as the first car from CT in the week that they'd been on that site. What's interesting is that CT was the last state they needed to complete Alaska and the lower 48!
Again, I was struck by the change in landscape as we drove through the upper Canadian Rockies, then, late in the day, onto the prairies. Canola is a major agricultural product of this area, which means that there are broad swathes of yellow in fields that stretch forever. We ended the day at Dawson Creek, the starting point of the ALCAN, the Alaska Highway. Roosevelt ordered that a highway be constructed to link Fairbanks, AK with Dawson Creek, BC after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The highway -- mostly built new but using some existing roads and tracks -- was constructed in 8 months and 11 days. We've now finished everything that ties to Alaska. Tonight we began to plot our drive across Canada.
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