We're all zeroes!

Well, we're not zeroes, but we're at Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway!!

Tonight we're in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, the start of the Alaska Highway. And we can officially say that we drove the whoooooole thing, all the way from Fairbanks even! Technically, it starts at Delta Junction now, but at one point it started in Fairbanks, so we'll go with that.

I think we're also up over 2000 miles already driven, though I don't know if taking detours to different places around Alaska earns the same points as if you just HAVE to drive all those miles. Whatever way it works, we've been in the car a lot. A.LOT.

We seem to have settled into a bit of a groove and things have gotten much better since the horrific Denali to Tok day. It's also helpful that we haven't tried to cover so many miles at once since then - and we hooked up the DVD player (insert mommy guilt for putting a 1 year old in front of a TV for a couple hours a day). Tomorrow could be a long-ish day, especially since we lose another hour as we move into the Mountain time zone, so we're planning to hit the road at 8am! YIKES!!! Which means I should probably keep this short and sweet tonight so I can get some things packed up and get ready for bed!

We had a pretty short day today which was nice because we got into Dawson Creek early enough to check out the Alaska Highway House - a small little museum about the construction of the Alaska Highway (aka the ALCAN). Since we'd just driven the whole thing, we figured it was only right to go check it out.

This is a map of the highway they had up on the wall there. So in case anyone wondered, that was our route!

We were also able to get dinner at a decent time (meaning prior to baby melt down) and we went out for a nice walk in the 70+ degree temps! (Fred was dying!) Oh, and we also hit Walmart across from the hotel to pick up a few necessities. I promised I'd never step foot in another one again once I left Kodiak, but there's no Target here!!

All that fun once we got here meant we only had to hide next to the bed for about 6 minutes tonight while the baby cried...fresh air makes her tired!!! Tomorrow night will probably be terrible since she'll think it's an hour earlier when we try to put her down. Thankfully, the day after tomorrow is a very short driving day so we'll get her tired out in Banff and reset her clock again!

So that's about it from here for tonight. Nothing too exciting to report. The only wildlife we saw today were a couple of deer. Oh, and smashed bugs. LOTS of smashed bugs... on the windshield, stuck in the wipers, wrapped around the antenna... good stuff!

For the official record, we're up to 5 moose, 1 black bear, 1 brown bear, 2 deer and a herd of bison. Not bad!

Tomorrow we're off to the Canadian Rockies - Jasper for the night and then through the mountains to Banff the next night! Hopefully I'll get the chance to take lots of pictures to share... it was gorgeous when we were there the last time!!

Good night from Mile 0!!