Miscellaneous Impressions of Our Alaska and Canada trip

• Rugged people.
• Salmon.
• Three legged dogs.
• Shot out highway signs outside Anchorage.
• Fish and chips or hamburgers.  A bargain under $20.
• Colorful Canadian money.
• Bear spray.
• Endless displays about the construction of the Alaska Highway..."Mile after mile of mile after mile."
• Native corporations and First Nation lands.
• Grizzly bear greeting our tour bus.
• Gold rush, gold rush, gold rush.
• Bald eagles and seagulls scavenging on the beach.
• Beautiful overnight camping alongside the road.
• Ice blue growlers from the Columbia Glacier.
• Brown bear scat versus black bear scat.
• Dying spruce trees in BC from the spruce bark beetle.
• Yukon Brewery, "Beer worth freezing for."
• The Alaska-Kansas border, according to Verizon Wireless.

Bruce