Home for Two Months: Medical Issues and New Jeep Gladiator 10/19/2020

It has been great being home, but I am looking forward to heading South and finding warm weather again. We have had frost a couple of mornings and I had to break out the long pants. I even had to give up my flip flops occasionally because my toes were too cold! We are lucky that we have not had any below freezing temperatures, but we have gotten close at 35 degrees.

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Fort Nelson: Mule Deer Up Close and Personal 07/22/2019

We started our trip North heading to Fort Nelson on the Alaska Highway early on Monday morning.  Unfortunately, we had barely made it out of town when a buck ran into our Jeep and tore off the rear driver’s fender and inner wheel well.  I did not even know we had hit anything but Randy saw parts fly up in the air from his outside mirror.  The driver behind us saved our parts as she blocked the road so no one could run over them.  She told Randy the deer shook himself off and took off up the other bank.  There was blood and some hair on the fender so I am not sure if he survived, but at least he has a chance since he took off. 

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