24 Hour Countdown.

 We are super excited as we have less than 24 hours to go until we depart for Alaska.  This will be our first trip to Alaska and actually our first visit to Canada as well.  Our last day will be spent doing laundry, washing the car, and getting everything packed in it and ready for take off tomorrow morning.  Our intent is to be on the road around 6:00am.  We've been anxiously awaiting our departure and Debra has said several times this week that we should just get in the car and take off early.

We've managed to stay patient by working on the trailer getting it ready for Phase 2 of this summer and by hanging out with family.  Debra attended our granddaughter's high school graduation last night.  KayLyn had also graduated fron her technical college a couple weeks ago with her CNA.  BTW she already has a job at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake.  I went to that graduation but not to the HS ceremony.  The traffic and crowds at those events drive me crazy.  I'm great with traffic on the open road but hate stop and go city traffic.

The first leg of our journey will take us from Eagle Mountain, Utah to Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.  This will be the longest leg in our trip in terms of mileage at 712 miles but it is all freeway miles so we will be doing 70 to 80 miles per hour for most of the day.  With rest stops and meals along the way we anticipate about 12 hours on the road tomorrow.  Debra has created a way for everyone to follow our progress on this trip in an app that tracks our GPS and updates the app so anyone who has access to our trip can follow us.  She will post a link to the app here on the blog later today.

Happy Trails,

Tom & Debra