Got up "not-so-early" again to moderate temps - fueled up and started out for "south" - our GPS wanted us to go even farther west instead of south straight out of Prince Albert........and we soon found out why!  Frost heaves or just plain bad roads......traveling on a clear hiway at only 35mph = worse road this year - reminded us of the Alcan!!!  So when there was another road to cross over to the east farther we took it......45minutes of gravel road - actually that was better than the paved road we left!  Finally got to a decent hiway and stopped to drop dogs - opened up the door from the "house" and there were loose dogs everywhere!!!! in and amongst the 2 sleds and the rest of the paraphenalia!!!  So I opened the side dog door of the trailer and let about 5 out and Randy had to untangle one at the back who was hooked into the sled and we got them all out without any problems - thank goodness they are all congenial dogs!  Usually I put s-hooks on the doors to make sure they can't open when we are traveling - but I forgot and and the "shucking" we were doing on the bad roads must have jumped the trailer so bad it popped the latches up!  Alot of times the dogs will just stay in their box even if the door is open, but not this time!!

So finally on good roads and down to the border by about 9:30 pm - went pretty smooth except he wanted to look in the dog part and people part of the trailer - his comment was "Yup, it looks like a camper...)  Made it all the way to Minot, ND and parked in the McDonalds parking lot for the nite.  Up this morning by 9 and had a gal that had just moved here from Wasilla, AK stop by to visit - she said it's much colder here!!  We now are waiting to hear back from the race organizer for a little race in Wasau, Wisconsin re-scheduled for this weekend - if they are going to still have snow we may hit it on the way back - but that looks like the "only game in town" - will let you know more when we have decided!