4 Wheels 4 Girls

We were waiting in line behind another RV. A guy flipped his sign to slowly board the ferry. The ferry started moving. It was sorta cool. When we got to the other side, off went the RV, into the campground.

Riding the Dawson City Ferry across the Yukon River

Then we went to a playground at the campground. We were playing on the tire swing and stuff and it was very fun but there were a lot of mosquitoes. So we just tried to avoid them, those dreadful mosquitoes.

I learned that the female mosquitoes are the ones that bite. The male mosquito is the one that doesn’t bite. They lay their eggs in puddles. They suck our blood and use it to feed their dreadful babies.

June 28 we drove on the demester hiwy and saw some mooses. AND EVEN A BABBY ONE!!!. At first the baby looked like a log but it wasn’t. It was bright orange. The mom looked like a mom moose. We saw touw moms i din’t see oue only my perentse saw it we saw a bow moose. We sat and watched the boy moose for a long time. He had really big horns with velvet on them. Dad saw him pick up one of his back legs, turn his head, and scratch the back of his head, between his horns. And on way bacck we saw a bold egol. AND on the way back me and dady tock a walk an the tonda. There were a lot of green bushes with red and green plants on the ground. It was so muddy and buppy on the demeseter highway that the RV was coverd with mudd.
(Mom helped me a bit with my typing)

Dad and I walked out onto this rocky ridge in the tundra

Editor’s translation:
June 28 we drove on the Dempster Highway and saw some mooses. AND EVEN A BABY ONE!!!. At first the baby looked like a log but it wasn’t. It was bright orange. The mom looked like a mom moose. We saw two mom mooses. I didn’t see one of them, only my parents saw it. We saw a boy moose. We sat and watched the boy moose for a long time. He had really big horns with velvet on them. Dad saw him pick up one of his back legs, turn his head, and scratch the back of his head, between his horns. And on way back we saw a bald eagle. AND on the way back, me and Daddy took a walk on the tundra. There were a lot of green bushes with red and green plants on the ground. It was so muddy and bumpy on the Dempster Highway that the RV was coverd with mud.

The result of driving the Dempster Highway

June 26, at the Dawson City Museum, we went to a show in the train building. It was about a lady named Lillian who was traveling to Russia. She was walking to Russia because she wanted to go home. She was from Poland. She didn’t like to talk to people. She wanted to be left alone She almost froze because it was so cold. She met these people when she came knocking on the door and she was sick. They gave her some medicine and they told her to stop at eight cabins on her way. My dad says they put her in a nice warm jail with nice warm food for the winter so she wouldn’t freeze. My favorite part was when a reported said, “So I heard you married a bear.” The last time anybody saw her was in Dawson City.

There were three trains in the train building. There were two buckets on a train. One carried sand and the other carried water. The sand was to drop down in front of the wheels so they don’t slip or something, I don’t remember.

AT the Coalmine Campgrond. we went to the bathrooms and i spoted somthing moveing. It WAS KIDDO HE WAS SO CUTE! By the way kiddo is a haskey. then are perents told us it was time to go to bed.The next Morning i went out to find kiddo he wasent ther. Then i played alittle by the river the yucon river and then we wuld play with sticks, rocks, and pinecones. It was very faste and are sticks they floated down the river fast. Ellie toched and siad it was cold:]

Me and Kiddo

Editor’s translation:
At the Coal Mine Campground (in Carmacks, Yukon), we went to the bathrooms and I spotted something moving. IT WAS KIDDO, HE WAS SO CUTE! By the way, Kiddo is a husky puppy. Then our parents told us it was time to go to bed. The next morning I went out to find Kiddo, but he wasn’t there. Then Ellie and I played a little by the Yukon River and then we would play with sticks, rocks, and pinecones. The river was very fast and our sticks floated down the river fast. Ellie touched it and said it was cold. :]

June 23rd we staying at the Yukon Continental Divide Lodge. We built our own Alaska Highway. I filled up a truck, a little one, with sand. But we pretended that it was gravel. I would lift down the see-saw and I would let the truck come on. And it would go over the see-saw. Then we would back it up onto the see-saw and it would go backwards down the see-saw. Then we would fill it up with sticks and put it on the Alaska Highway. Then we put some hay down so it wouldn’t sink. And straw. And then the final Alaska Highway was built.

Working on the Alaska Highway

It wasn’t the real Alaska Highway. It was made out of sand and the real Alaska Highway is made out of cement. Cars didn’t go on our Alaska Highway. Only the little cars could go on it that we had. For little cars it was like two miles long, but for real cars it was probably only one and half miles. The truck that we carried the sand with, it’s name was Lady.

June 21 we drove to the youcoc. Thar a persen in ruodoff cold youcon coneleyis. And the Alaska highway I was so happy that i spelled that i that thy and i robd dady back. on the way dad spoted a crter a red fox i thote it had arabeyzy . In then we drove for alittle wile and came ocrose ether they were mountain goats or goats or big horn sheep. an then i spoted a big warterfall . And onlementen little ouense

At the start of Canada Highway 37

[Editor’s translation:
June 21, we drove toward the Yukon. There is a person in Rudolph (the Red-nosed Reindeer) called Yukon Cornelius. On the Alaska highway I was so happy. And I rubbed Daddy’s back. On the way, Dad spotted a critter: a red fox. I thought it had rabies. And then we drove for a little while and came across goats. Either they were mountain goats or goats or big horn sheep. And then I spotted a big waterfall. And countless little ones. ]

The road north, toward Yukon and the Alaska Highway

A red fox on the road

Lakes, forest, and snow-capped mountains

A mountain goat

June 19, we drove from Prince George to Houston, British Columbia.

I thought we would not see anymore animals, but we did see more animals. Like moose. My dad tried to spot a porcupine, but I didn’t think he would spot one. He did spot a log that he said was a P.L.T. (porcupine-like-thing). I corrected him. It was a W.L.T. That’s a wood-like-thing. We did see a lot of cows and horses, and we did see some glaciers. I spotted a deer, and I said, “deer!” It was actually a big girl moose standing in some water, drinking. We stopped to look at it, and it ran out of the water. Everybody got to see it. Then it ran into the woods.

Our best picture of a moose so far

June 17, we went to Sunwapta Pass. We took some pictures there. We saw this really cool mountain. It had snow on it and I imagined that I was sliding down that mountain. There was a really cool waterfall next to it, but we didn’t take a picture of it.

Crossing Sunwapta Pass. That is the North Saskatchewan River down in the valley.

At Sunwapta Pass, if a raindrop fell on my head and bounced off it could run down to either of the oceans. But not to the Pacific Ocean. If it ran to the river behind me in the picture it would go to the Atlantic Ocean, but if it went to the other side of the mountain it would go to the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic Ocean is at the top of the world.

We found a really cool waterfall. It had three or four waterfallish things at the top and then joined into one waterfall. My dad also saw a big pile of snow along the side of the waterfall that we didn’t realize was there. We got our candy sticks and watched it go down. It was pouring down. Daddy says it was called Tangle Creek Falls.

Tangle Creek Falls

We left the Icefields Parkway. I was sad.

We saw a grizzly bear. Of course, we knew not to get out of the car. Somebody else did get out of their car, but not in this family, and he went close to take some pictures.

The grizzly bear was light brown. We thought it might be a black bear because black bears can be brown, but usually they are black. The grizzly bear didn’t roar. I thought it would roar because the guy was getting too close. The grizzly bear walked closer to the guy and started to dig. I thought the bear was cool. I thought the guy was not cool. We sat and watched the bear.

Seeing our first Grizzly Bear

I like seeing animals because they have different brains than us. I imagine I am like those animals. I imagine I am eating grass. Seeing a moose the first time was really exciting. Seeing the grizzly was more exciting. Seeing deer is not as exciting because we have seen a ton of deer.

June 16, we went to a library in Banff. We sat down to do time4learning. I brought my math book in and did some math. I got up to take some breaks and Ellie and Stella did sometimes, too. We didn’t have enough time to read. I just looked at the pictures in books. Then I went back to my math. I would do two pages, take a break, do two more pages, and then take a break. It seemed like we would never leave. But we finally did.

Hanging out in Banff, Alberta