Sunday, May 31, 2009 – We left Hinton about 8:30 AM on Highway 40N toward Grande Cache and Grande Prairie. The scenery was pretty but not as beautiful as we have been seeing the past few days. We stopped in Grande Cache to top off our fuel and continued on to Grande Prairie arriving just before 1:00 PM. We had planned to go to a rodeo this evening but it was cold and windy and it started raining shortly after we arrived so we all agreed to skip the rodeo. I had a pot roast cooking in the crock pot so while it finished up we drove over to Costco and did a little shopping and then had dinner together. After dinner Bill decided he would go take a long, hot shower at the campground’s washroom. This should have been a non-event but turned into a comedy that should have been recorded for television. He gathered everything together and walked over to the washroom only to find out he needed a dollar. He came back and got a “loonie” and returned to the showers. He put in his dollar, got in the shower, and soaped up his hair and his body. Even though he turned off the water to save time on his dollar, just about the time he got everything all soaped up his time ran out and the water turned off! Now what? He peeked around to see if anyone was looking and then dripping wet and covered in soap he ran back and forth from the shower to the sink gathering everything he had brought with him. He had to make three sinks full of water to get all the soap off. All of this was so he could take a longer, more leisurely shower than in the motorhome. I guess that will teach him!
We have been on the road now for 12 days and we are 2, 139 miles from home. In the morning we will arrive in Dawson Creek and the start of the Alaska Highway. Now that we have been in Canada for about a week we are pretty proficient in converting kilometers to miles but we’re still working on the meters to feet, liters to gallons and kilograms to pounds. Figuring out our mileage is a real trick – at this point I wouldn’t want to bet the ranch that it’s accurate but it’s probably pretty close. As for the exchange rate between U.S. currency and Canadian who knows? Apparently it changes every day and it is somewhere between 8.5% and 10.0% depending on where you exchange and how much they charge for the privilege of changing your money. Our best rate so far was today at Costco where I got $110 Canadian for $100 U.S. Just about the time we get it figured out we’ll be in Alaska and not have to worry about it for awhile.
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