Made it to Edmonton (suburbs)

Robert, Tuesday, September 16

It was a short drive today, just a little more than one hundred miles. While in Alaska and driving down the Alaska Highway, we have been using a book called, “Alaska Camping” by the Church’s. This book is an excellent source of campgrounds. One nice feature is that it provides the latitude and longitude of the campgrounds. Our GPS allows the input of lat-long so finding campgrounds is a piece of cake. Now that we have left the Alaska Highway, our campground guide offers directions in very small print. The GPS will find addresses but the address of many campgrounds is a post office box so that doesn’t work. We were following the directions to the campground and we got to the town of White Grove. It is just to the west of Edmonton and actually is just one of the suburbs. After the “Welcome To” sign we drove past the kind of buildings you expect to see when driving through any town on a four-lane highway. We kept driving looking for the campground for which the directions say is close to the highway we were driving on. We went through the town and soon were looking at farms. Leslie called to be sure we didn’t miss it and we were told to keep going and that we would be there in 5 minutes. Sure enough, I 5 minutes we saw the campground and pulled in. We checked in for four days and parked in our assigned site. Our site is a back-in which often means you look out your back window into the back window of the RV backed in on the other side. The sites on the side we are on are offset from the site on the other side so we don’t have to stare at our neighbors. There are trees and the sites are wide so this is a nice campground. We have internet access here so after we set up we both spent time reading email and web surfing. Dinner was salmon from the freezer.