We car pooled to the dinner with Dave, Maddie, Bruce and Marion riding with us. Everyone looked really nice and for the first time in at least a month, we came out of our cold weather clothes. Dinner was prime rib for me and Denny and the other choice was chicken. The prime rib was very good. After dinner, everyone took turns telling their favorite places or events on the trip. Needless to say, it was very hard to just name 2 or 3 places. Everyone also complimented our leaders. They were great and always had smiles and were upbeat. We also agreed that the comraderie with our group was great. Lots of fun, good-natured ribbing and laughter.
There were lots of good-bye tears. This is the biggest negative on these long caravans-you have so much time to get to know people and it makes you very sad to know that you may never see them again. Hopefully, we will keep in touch. Denny and I keep in touch with several old friends from our Mexico and Maritime trips and plan to do so with our new Alaska caravan friends as well. Some stayed up for a late night get together, but frankly we have a long, early day tomorrow and I also couldn't go thru the sad good-byes again.
A word about this adventure-you usually have high expectations at the beginning of such an adventure that rarely lives up to what you expected. We have been planning and wanting to do this for 19 years, even canceling one planned trip. I have to say and I truly mean it-this trip far exceeded our expectations. Alaska, BC, Alberta and the Yukon are so vast and so diversified and beautiful, it truly boggles the mind. I have over 1700 pictures which do not begin to do it justice. You just must go see it for yourself!!!
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