On To the Alaska Highway
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From Vancouver, we traveled the Sea to Sky Highway, then the Cariboo, the Hart and finally arrived in Dawson Creek and Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway.
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Olympic National Park & Into Canada
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Just before crossing the US-Canadian border in Blaine, Washington, we stopped at the Peace Arch Historical State Park. The park ‘celebrates the unguarded US/Canada border that stretches from the Strait of Juan de Fuca (right here) to the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia’.
Read MoreNorth to Alaska - Lewis & Clark, Powered Up & Disappointment
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We certainly learned about Lewis & Clark through the years in our American history classes. We’ve seen historic markers along their route from St. Louis up the Missouri River to the Pacific. It was, however, at Fort Clatsop, their winter shelter for three months from December 1805 to March1806, that we came to realize just what a monumental task Thomas Jefferson had assigned to them and what a tremendous feat they accomplished.
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