Where's Waldo.....and Randy and Cris???

We left Cook’s house at about 11:30am after dropping dogs and then filling up with water – the road we came in on was still bumpy (to say the least) but at least I had duct taped the microwave oven to the counter good enough this time!

We had clear roads and weather and as we got closer to Winnipeg and heard the news and weather it was white out conditions – so we decided to park at Portage La Prairie right next to the place we were broke down for a week last year!!!!!

So we have fed dogs and are in the lot of Walmart – no internet service so don’t know when this will get posted.

No interesting animal stories…………or really any other stories……….

We talked about the decision to go back east and I guess it is really an accumulation of many things…………the dogs not fast enough right now, the dogs sick, both Randy and I have sprained knees, the trailer is probably holding 70% of the weight on the back axle even with all the moving around we did with dogs and meat and not knowing how that is really going to affect the axle and “what if” we broke down on the Alcan, not knowing until just today that the Exxon race was on, the bitter cold we have been in the last week, and sometimes you just have to trust that there is a reason not to………….

Up at the crack of 8:30 this morning – very cold – fed dogs and are on the road by 10 to 10 – Randy went over to say thanks again for the NAPA store people for last year and they had recognized the trailer and had been talking about us!

Stopped at McDonalds for wifi and on the road again….. should make it well into Minnesota and maybe even Michigan!