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August 5, 1999

Hey folks!
	Just a bulletin, we made it to Alaska.  We are in Anchorage 
today and will leave for Valdez tommorrow.  For my correspondents-sorry, 
but connecting in Canada,  (even just for email) was all but impossible.  
We stayed at a lot of Provincial Parks with no jacks to connect to.  
Heck!  They didn't even have hookups for our rigs most of the time.   
We've been driving, touring, and fishing, with no place to hook up!  
Then .. . I finally got to Alaska and found that none of my Earthlink 
toll free numbers worked here!   Accck!  I finally got em on their 
Customer service line (It worked!  Acck!) and found they don't have 
lines here yet.  I finally had to sign up with a local service to get 
this out!  Sheesh!  But I still love using Earthlink in the lower 48.   
I tried to send this out in Soldatna last week and couldn't connect! 
They only service notebooks and their modems in Anchorage.  The modem 
and computer worked here!  Must have been the phone lines. Today I hope 
to get out some answers to the more than 300 emails I just retrieved LOL! 
It'll take awhile!  Please continue to use my earthlink address.  I can
retrieve mail from Earthlink but can't send from another service.  So I'll
use this address to send out only, and it is just for another month send
out mail from Alaska.  After I get back to the lower 48 I will continue
with Earthlink.

	I'd like to ask you all to please avoid sending me 
anything other than text messages.  Audio, video, and graphics 
take way too long to download! And I can't surf the net to see all 
the virtual cards I have received until I am back home with 
my own phone.
While on the road I am always borrowing someone's home or office line.  
At one person's house I asked to use their line for just a few minutes to
retrieve email.  The line was slow and there was a 4 MB joke application in
my email that took an hour to receive!  Boy was I embarrassed!  
He was gracious but obviously never let me use his line again.
Save em for when we are back In Louisiana with our own phone.  
Then we can have fun with the stuff we are denied by the facts of 
connecting on the road. . .LOL!  Danke! 

	Our route to date has been:  Chanute KS to Oklahoma City, 
Oklahoma City to Albuquerque (spent a week there), then to Williams 
AZ (Grand Canyon spent a week there), to Las Vegas, to Salt Lake City, 
to West Yellowstone (Yellowstone park), to Columbia Falls Montana 
(Glacier Park), to Banff Canada, to Jasper, to Prince George, to Dawson 
Creek, to Muncho Lake, to Watson Lake, to Whitehorse, to the Alaskan 
Border, to Tok, to Fairbanks, to Denali, to Anchorage, to Soldotna, 
to Seward, to Anchorage (now), and then on to Valdiz, then back to 
the lower 48 by way of the Cassiar Hwy.  And all stops in between.  
Whew!

	I will be retrieving email for the first time in several 
months today. 
Please be patient as both the newsletters and my correspondence will get
caught up as we find a place to base at for a week or two.  
	Boy have we learned a lot!  Had a few moments of sheer terror,
overshadowed by some of the most spectacular scenery and wildlife in the
world.  And finally, we learned the truth about traveling the Alaskan
Highway (got lots of advance advice that was simply not accurate).  

	I'll include the skinny on credit cards, cell phones, 
prices, firearms, RV parks, boondocking, must sees, wildlife, roads, 
Salmon and Halibut fishing, people, and places, in the next newsletters.

	Even Bogart has a few stories!  LOL!
	From the road, safe travels all.
dg/RV
 
 
 


   





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