Longview

Phil got his credit card thing straightened out with USAA. He'll get a new card when we get back to Laramie. They are sending it to the friend who is receiving our mail this summer. Thank goodness we planned for this and had backup cards to use. From now on, he will go inside to pay!

He said he tried the touch pad on the gas pump, and it didn't work, so he "swiped" instead. The fraud investigator said this was a common trick. If I have to pay, I go inside and have them authorize a certain amount of money. It was hard at first in Canada to know how much to preauthorize, but now we know more about how many liters for so many miles. Gas is not as expensive in this part of Alberta as it was in the Yukon, and surprisingly, the cheapest gas we've found was in Fairbanks.

We've been getting about 22 miles per gallon average the whole trip pulling the camper. That is good compared to lots of people we have spoken with. Our pickup is a 4 cylinder engine model and no turbo charger. Other people are carrying extra gas cans, but we have not needed any.

Interesting morning. Last night, Phil got up at 3 am to use the bathroom
A guy in black hoodie on a bike tried to get into the bathroom. Phil shut the door, thinking if he did not have a code, he should not be inside the bathroom. The man used the code and went in. This morning, the bathroom was trashed. Phil called a report, and several city employees showed up to clean up the mess and change the bathroom code.

We drove today over Highway 22 all day. This parallels the route up through Calgary and Edmonton, so we missed most of the traffic. We also drive pretty slow with our top speed at about 60 mph, which also helps our gas efficiency.

We can finally see the mountains again here in Longview. We are at a community owned RV park again and have showers and electricity at this site.

We drove to see the Ototoks Erratic this afternoon. It is a very large rock that was carried here by a glacier from the Canadian Rocky Mts many years thousands of years ago. When the glacier melted, the rock was stranded. Those rocks are called Erratics.Read more