What a long strange trip its been!

Well, after leaving the 'chainsaw capital of the world' (SHE was no fun...she didn't let me pee on any of them) we headed off on our journey (ie.more napping). We reached the start of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, BC...and I was rudely awakened at Mile 38 by a loud sound. They informed me that we had received our first windshield ding. A nice big starburst crack, hallmark of the Alaska Highway! We stayed that night at Charlie's lake Provincial park, just outside Fort St. John, BC. We took a nice walk to the lake through woods with trees scarred by itchy antlers. They actually locked us in the park until 7am, you can imagine how HE, early riser that he is reacted to this inconvenience (just kidding SHE says he took it philosophically and we just ate breakfast before heading out).We stopped at Summit lake for a hike...the highest point on the Alaska highway. We slept at Liard hot springs, BC...where the soaking (at least according to HE and SHE) was very nice...no dogs allowed in the hot spring so all I got was eaten by mosquitoes. The next morning we crossed into the Yukon and stopped at a strange place called Watson lake. There was this forest of signposts..again SHE did not allow me to pee! Instead SHE took my tag with the Connecticut address and nailed it to a post!We stopped in Whitehorse for a break at her insistence. We walked a beautiful bike path that ran along the Yukon river (its the color of the Caribbean but somehow I think its not as warm!) We saw something called a salmon ladder but there were no fish just yet. After our walk we stopped at a Backerei (another German restaurant). SHE oohed and ahhed over a Linzer torte, and saved me just a scrap. That night we drove late and HE and SHE got a little soft because they decided to spring for a hotel, and they even found one in Burwash Landing that allowed me to join them for a small fee:-) They had discussed the fact that as the rest of the household things wouldn't be arriving for 2-5 weeks more it might be nice to take this chance to sleep in a bed. I slept great but they didn't seem all that thrilled with the quality of the mattress...the last one for a few weeks proved to be a bit droopy. We arrived at the Alaska border at 9am, the last time change (one more hour back for a total of 4 during the trip) and who should we run into but a busload of, you guessed it, Germans! HE was nice enough to take group photos with 20odd cameras! We ate at Teslin, breaked in Tok and reached Delta Jct at 1:45,more pictures as SHE and HE said it was the end of the Alaska hwy and almost home...whatever that is! We pulled up early in the evening to this brown house with a big front porch and quite a view. They let me in and I wandered...lots of interesting smells, some dogs have been here before!They let me wade through the fenced in yard...HE mentioned the effects 24 hours of sunlight has on grass when left to itself for a couple months! All I know is I couldn't see much. We then explored a field and I marked my new territory. North to the future...we have arrived!