Road Trip Continued--Day 3 Farm land and oil

Day 3--Since we arrived in the middle of the night, we slept until about 8:30 and left Maidstone about 9:30AM. Within an hour we entered into Alberta.

Alberta is beautiful. The land continues to be fairly flat, with areas of rolling hills. Farm land, grain bins, and oil wells dress the scenery. The elevation increased to about 2700 ft. A couple of times we saw small creatures running across the road. They would stop and pause long enough for us to catch a glimpse of them and figure out that they were foxes. We saw lots of signs warning us to look out for moose, but so far, we haven’t noticed one yet, we've only seen evidence of moose presence with droppings on the road side. We continued all the way across Alberta and crossed into British Colombia before stopping to rest in Dawson Creek. Dawson Creek is considered mile marker zero for the Alaskan Highway. We met a nice couple who took some pictures of us and we in turn did the same for them. They were from British Columbia and were just completing their own 4,000 mile journey. They had made a large loop around British Columbia and up the Alaskan Highway and were on their way home. It’s interesting how there’s someone who’s life in some ways parallels yours out there some place.