August 16th, 2024

It’s an exciting day! We haven’t been in the lower 48 for 58 days! Today we crossed the border. There’s nothing like seeing your own flag flying! 

We had no problem at the border other than we were caught trying to cross with a lemon and an orange…. Gerry you know what that’s all about! We chose to cross at the farthest east corner of Manitoba figuring it would be less busy. We guessed right!

Though we are back in the good ol’ USA we loved our northerly neighbors and our trek across their country. Thank you British Columbia for all the spectacular beauty, thank you Alberta for all the agriculture, thank you Saskatchewan for the smoothest roads of the whole trip, thank you Manitoba for taking care of us so well as we waited days for the repair. And Yukon, well, you need to fix your roads!! But waking up to a herd of bison made it all worth it!

We (Gary) decided to stop in to Voyageurs National Park on our way home because, you know, it’s right on our way. Not exactly but we did the detour and took a look at another of our countries hidden gems. It’s more of a park you have to discover by boat tours so we may return to this beautiful piece of America another time. We are camped right on Lake Kabetogama at The Pines. Supposedly you can see the northern lights from here most days of the year! Probably not tonight though due to the heavy clouds overhead. We’ve driven in rain much of the day today. At the top of the list when we return here will be mosquito spray for sure!