Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Road trip to Oregon

On Sept 14th, Brian and I headed out of Juneau on the slow 7 hour ferry ride to Skagway. With a few hour stop in Haines along the way where we went on a walk along the road. The weather was just perfect that day!


Here we are driving through the Yukon, the fall colors were out in full steam.

Got to see a pretty amazing sunset from the car on our first evening, still driving, trying to get to the Liard Hot springs that night!

Had to stick my head out the sunroof for this one!

So, the first morning we got up and walked out to the hot springs which were pretty awesome. The closer you get to where it comes out of the ground, the hotter it gets, the more it burns!! Ouch!


This hot springs definitely looked cool. Not like a pool or spa, but very natural! It was a lot of fun.

Then off we went, more driving to do!

Somewhere in British Columbia...a huge beaver, so we got out of the car for a few minutes to take a picture.

Now entering Jasper National Park. The day was so sunny and awesome. Too bad we got to our campsite late, because unfortunately the next day would not be sunny...


But we enjoyed ourselves anyway, but we did drive right through in a day, through Jasper and Banff. Stopping every once in a while to see a water fall or lake. I was a bit disappointed in the rain.






This was a really cool lake, the colors are amazing! But we had to hurry because thunder and lightning and check out those clouds were coming right towards us!!


So after leaving Banff and Jasper we just kept driving, into the United States and Idaho, stopped to eat dinner in the parking lot of a Safeway and decided to just drive on to Oregon that night. I made a nice bed in the back for myself and slept for four house or so while Brian got us most of the way home. Then finished off the early morning to my mom's house.
So now we are in our apartment in Tigard which is right next to Portland. Brian has started school three weeks ago and I am still searching for a job. Well, waiting for a call back more like it. I'll post some pictures of our home soon enough.

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