A short drive

This little post will likely not do our trip justice, but I figure I should touch on some of the highlights. We left Anchorage Saturday morning (packed up the U haul trailer Friday night)and drove to Wasilla where Kari did a triathlon...she kicked butt! After she finished we got on the road and drove to the boarder. In Canada we saw a bunch of animals and some really tall mountains, the Canadian Rockies were amazing and our Dakota pulled that 5000lbs trailer amazingly well up and down and all around. We stopped at a Watson Lake and got some pictures at the sign forest, and found some signs posted from Wenatchee, Idaho Falls, and Quincy. Most of the nights we slept in pull outs, truck stops, and rest stops. At one point I noticed a sign on a gas station that said "showers" so we stopped, got some gas and took a shower...it was wonderful! We drove through both Jasper and Banff parks along the Ice Field parkway which was amazing! As we approached the boarder we found a big dinosaur, which made a great photo, then breezed through the board...welcome home they said. We stayed at the first KOA (which is in billings Montana), saw Mary and Larry's new place in Missouri, saw Mount Rushmore, stayed in Santa Clause Indiana, and hit IKEA before rolling into Chapel Hill North Carolina (~5,000 miles). This was a journey, but just when you start to think that what your doing you meet someone that is doing something bigger...for example we met two guys on bikes in the Yukon that were biking from the top of Alaska to the bottom of Argentina...now that's epic! Anyhow we are at our new home which is a duplex just south of campus with a nice backyard for Kenai. whew