October 28, 2016. Back down the Alaska Highway

LOCATION:  Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada WEATHER:  Some delightful sun.  Mostly cloudy Lows around 0 F.  Highs 30F   It is colder in Fort Nelson than in Grande Prairie.  Overnight, it got below 0F.  The nights are long already.  Since it doesn't get light until about 9:00 AM, we got a late start on the road.  We stopped at a grocery to buy supplies for the trip.  This sign was in front of the door.

We spent the day driving back southeast 8 hours to Grande Prairie.  At about the 3rd hour, the sun magically popped out and the northern Rocky Mountains soared around us.  

We didn't see any wildlife, other than 2 dead moose in the ditch.   

 

 

At mile marker 20 (20 miles north of where the highway starts in Dawson Creek), we took a detour to see part of the original Highway.

 

 

We stopped in Dawson Creek to take a picture of the start of the Highway, Mile Marker 0.

We arrived home, a bit tired, at 7:00 PM.  What a unique opportunity to make the drive in the winter!

 

DINNER:  Aunt Martha made a spaghetti squash and I made a sauce for it.  Very good!