Home to Dawson Creek - Alaska 2005    

Updated: 11/30/08

We did not do many tourist type stops on this segment of our trip. Our goal was to spend our time in Alaska. However, we HAD to take a short side trip to see the World's Largest Coke Can in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. It came about when a beer company asked to paint a city water tank like a beer can. As the tank was adjacent to a baseball field used by children as well as adults, the city did not want a beer can. The city officials ask the Coke Cola company for permission to paint it like a coke can.

Along the road we saw a huge ridge of  'stuff' leading to a building. As we got closer, a sign identified it as a potash plant.

We also saw the large amount of hay stored along the road. Some of it was old and decaying, some was from a recent harvest.

A lot of the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway 16 is a nice divided road. Currently, miles and miles of the remaining one-lane stretches are being improved. We estimate over a hundred mile of divided highway is under construction. In some areas they are adding two lanes on both side if the existing road. Most of the work did not interfere with traffic.

The setting sun viewed through our window was a pleasant sight in the city campground in Morris, Manitoba, Canada

The rest of the photographs from this segment of our trip are example of the terrain enjoyed and weather we endured.

Rain in WISCONSIN ... 

Flat terrain in NORTH DAKOTA and MANITOBA ...

It got a little hilly in SASKATCHEWAN and ALBERTA ... 

Sometime the clouds were very pretty. Other times they let go of a little moisture.

In Manitoba they were experiencing flooding conditions. Rivers were overflowing their banks. Many farm fields were flooded like this one - some 90% underwater. 

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