Alaska: It’s the journey, not only the destination! (motto)

Traveling on 4th day.

We had the same feeling as we did when traveling with our boys, we would sing a silly little song about ‘the gypsy life’. Don’t remember the words but hope I can find em!
So I included this link from a 'Good Buddy'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8vSrm7Y-Kw&feature=player_embedded#.

Leaving Moose Jaw all seeeeeeemd well until that funny noise in the engine. Well to make a longish story short (saving the gory details), needed a generator belt, towed to Saskatoon VW and 6 hours later on our way. Having moved thru Alberta and now BC.
Started at Grand Prairie, BC on Milepost 0, we stopped at 147 in Pink Mountain RV park. Roughly 900 or so miles to go,at this point a lot of things are a blur, especially this morning when I thought I lost my eyesight, but only to find I picked up T’s glasses.

Still enjoying great scenery, and having made new friends in Saskatoon got to ask some questions: What are the beautiful massive farms planted with: answer-wheat, canola, flax, mustard and peas. Need to know what is flying by! Bison are plentiful and the fields are being cut so you can see little dust ground clouds in the far distance.
That leads to another experience, while reaching the foothills to Rockies, we noticed it was overcast, realizing it was smoke, we assume from the forest fires in BC.
There are so many beautiful sights, and by the time you have passed it, it should have been a kodak moment.

We woke up to rain and gratefully realized we are not in a tent, weather is cool in the mountains @ 3000+ elevation. A tremendous amount of oil and gas exploration up here so there are loads of work camps set up all over, kind of seems like it is a modern day gold rush. A little disconcerting to find among the wonderful sights abounding.