Well, it was an eventful yet mind numbing drive. We saw the one and only moose of the trip just south of the NWT boarder... she was young and fairly small (for a moose) and didn't have any antlers. Kind of disappointing... especially after what was probably thousands of signs warning you to watch for moose. Rob didn't want to stop so the only photos I have of her are somewhat blurry.
Once we'd seen the moose it was on to the boarder, as always the goal was to get photos of each of us at the sign... We both felt that this one was particularly important. Well... Rob has
Once we'd seen the moose it was on to the boarder, as always the goal was to get photos of each of us at the sign... We both felt that this one was particularly important. Well... Rob has
been fired. He is never allowed to take a boarder photo of me again. As I'm looking through the photos of the boarder I say, 'Oh, my god. I look retarded.' He says, 'It's not that bad, right?' The photo is to the right, you'll see why I reacted like that. Apparently I was mid-trip or something along those lines... yeesh. There was also a really cool bird sitting in front of me that he swears was in the photo... it's not in the photo. Ah well, he tried. I got a few good ones of him as well as a few with no one in them.
Once we'd made it past the boarder we had to go another 532-odd km to our final destination... all along the Mackenzie Highway, over the new bridge and through the Wood-Buffalo Sanctuary. Thankfully the Moose signs had stopped... but as soon as we crossed the bridge there was the first of many Bison warning signs! Once again though, we only spotted them once along the road... peacefully grazing and completely content with ignoring the truck as we passed by.
Less than 200 km after the bison encounter over one of the most ridiculous roads we'd ever seen... fully paved but it was completely possible to bottom out your car on some of the waves that were built into the asphalt. Apparently this is an improvement... they re did a lot of it last year and were still working on some strips of loose gravel when we went through.
At the end of that crazy road, though, was our final destination. We'd been following a Volvo from Mississippi for about 100km and they had the same idea we did when we reached the city limits... we both stopped to take a photo of the Yellowknife sign. Kinda cool to actually be able to say hi to the people you're driving with!
So, we made it. We had no close calls and we're in one piece. Now, let the real adventure begin!
Less than 200 km after the bison encounter over one of the most ridiculous roads we'd ever seen... fully paved but it was completely possible to bottom out your car on some of the waves that were built into the asphalt. Apparently this is an improvement... they re did a lot of it last year and were still working on some strips of loose gravel when we went through.
At the end of that crazy road, though, was our final destination. We'd been following a Volvo from Mississippi for about 100km and they had the same idea we did when we reached the city limits... we both stopped to take a photo of the Yellowknife sign. Kinda cool to actually be able to say hi to the people you're driving with!
So, we made it. We had no close calls and we're in one piece. Now, let the real adventure begin!