Settling in

After 4 days in Canada, I have made it back in the United States!  I have been to 6.5 countries over the past few months.  Canada has definitely been one of my favorites. They have the nicest people, all the food is fresh and every single bathroom smells amazing!!!  Seriously though, Canada has the cleanest bathrooms I have ever seen.  Along the Alcan highway, which is the highway in Canada that connects the lower 48 to Alaska, there are outhouses about every 30 minutes.  These outhouses have no odor what so ever!! I’m not sure what they put in there but they did it right!  Besides the amazing bathrooms, Canada has the bluest waters and magnificent mountain ranges I’ve seen.  One particular place in Canada has to be one of the most unexpected surprises on this journey.  In the Yukon, there is a town called Watson Lake.   In 1942, an American solider working to build the Alcan Highway started what is called today the Signpost Forest.  In the middle of nowhere Canada is 75,000 signs nailed to a group of trees.  The signs range from a post of multiple towns in Germany to names of families and their state of origin on a pizza pan.  The nature and drive through Canada was unreal.  This country has such hidden beauty that I would have never expected.  The closer to America, the more writings on the bathroom wall or “washrooms” as they call it in Canada.  So many people writing their names, state and when they drove the Alcan Highway.  I’ve joined this club I would have never even dreamed of a few months ago……..and I feel honored to have made this journey with the rest of the names on the bathroom wall. 

As I cross back to into America, I get the same feeling every time I come back to this great country.  I am home!  I have made it to my new home in the amazing state of Alaska!  It must be called the amazing state of Alaska since I reserve great for “The Great State of Texas.”  Alaska welcomed me the first morning with snow and 30 ⁰F …….in September.  Goodbye shorts, hello parka!