Camouflaged Daydreams

Since we still do not know why she passed out the other day we are trying to cover every base.

Mountains and low lying clouds I believe was taken while still in the Yukon, Canada

Last Thursday:

I have been without Internet now for several days. I have to say it is about to drive me nuts. I never quite realized just how much I use the Internet until this week.

I am keeping a post in Word, adding and summarizing each day, until I get to post this.

We hit the road tomorrow morning and already we've had some adventures.

Monday we passed our housing inspection with flying colors. I was relived to sign it over after scrubbing it top to bottom for days and hours on end.

Tuesday I smashed two of my fingers, breaking one and injuring the other.

I'm not sure exactly how it happen, everything seemed to happen so fast. One second I was moving the spare tire to the trailer to the hitch, the tire slipped and in the next second two of my fingers were caught in between the hitch and the tire.

Being my brilliant self (can you hear the sarcasm) I yanked my hand free without lifting the tire. All I thought at the time was that hurts I need to get my hand free. I didn't allow myself the time to think through the best way to go about it.

On Wednesday my van ate a CD. It is now refusing to give it back. It even tries to tell me, by flashing a cute little message, that there is no CD.

This really dampened my day. I've been stocking up on CD just for this trip. I know from the drive up here there are alot of places when you get no, or crappy radio reception.

I would hook my iPod into the car charger. I have one of those neat little gadgets that allows you to play your iPod through your car stereo, but that fuse blew awhile back and now no new fuse will work in it when replaced.

My van hates me. Lately the feeling is mutual.

Thursday morning my new laptop broke. Hubby and I rushed it to the computer emergency room. 3 hours and 91 dollars later the computer doctors told us there was no hope. My beautiful laptop is now just a hunk of useless plastic and metal.

How am I still writing you might ask. Well, we bit the bullet and bought another one. One with warranty this time.

DAY 1
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

Friday

We started off at 5:00 a.m. We started driving in the rain. We drove south and the storm was heading north, so soon we had clearer skies.

All went well for the first two hours, then I heard a thump-thump. I knew in an instant that could not be good.

I pulled off the road with Hubby behind me. We found that one of my cargo straps holding down my tarp on the trailer had come undone. In doing so, hit the metal covering thingy (I do believe that is the technical word) covering one of the trailer tires.

After some frustration, a little cussing and kicking of the tires, we got the tarp retied. As soon as I got back in my van and started the engine my CD player spit out my hijacked CD.

To summarize: the rest of the day was spent pulling over every couple of hours to retie straps. we finally found a store that had some and the new ones held up better.

We hit several storms, even encountering hail, and was stopped several times for construction.work. We made terrible time today. Arriving to Whitehorse 3 hours behind schedule.

To top the day off we ended up in a crappy motel tonight. There is no dresser, the t.v.stand is falling apart, and there is no Internet access as advertised. But Hubby and I are at the point where we are just too frustrated and too tired to look for another with vacancies. The sheets smell clean, there is hot water, a small coffee pot (very essential), and double locks on the door. It will do for a few hours of sleep.

Here's hoping tomorrow goes better than today did.

DAY 2
Muncho Lake, British Columbia, Canada

Saturday

Once again no Internet. (not any I can get too. There is one pay-as-you-use computer in the lobby of our current hotel but the hotel is packed and I'm too beat to wait in line) Today was a terrifying day. We had a huge scare. I will get to that in a minute, I will say now that everyone is okay.

The morning started off well. The tarp on the trailer stayed in place. The new straps are doing well. we had very little road construction, and only a few light rain storms.

we were making excellent time. We had one stop for breakfast and pit stops now and then. Around noon we decided it was time for a longer break. We stopped at Watson lake in the Yukon.

On our drive to Alaska we had passed a placed called the "Sign Post Forest". A 'Forest' of signs and license plates people have left from all over Canada, and the U.S. We swore on our drive back we would leave a sign.

Before we left housing we thought again our sign, but things got hectic and we never got around to figuring out how to make the sign let alone get around to constructing one.

Today at Watson Lake we spotted the Sign Post Forrest again. We walked around and took pictures. As we were about to leave I had a brain storm. I did notice not all the sign were fancy made. I saw a few toilet seats, even a plastic lid used. I decided I would find something in my van I could use for a sign. I wanted to leave our mark.

I scrounged around the van and then remembered I had a large pack of blank CDs. I grabbed a CD, a permanent marker and made our sign. I wrote: From Alaska to Texas. I then wrote our family name and date.

I looked around and found a thumb tack and a blank space in the forest and nailed our CD sign up in the Watson Lake, Sign Post Forrest.

After our forest tour we filled up with gas and went in to fill up on snacks. It was then that our perfect day went terribly wrong.

While standing in line to pay for our snacks Missy told me her stomach felt weird. I talked to her a bit and told we'd hurry and get her to the van so she could lay down.
Missy suffers from car sickness now and then and I thought that may be the problem.

I turned my back to her to pay. A couple of seconds she called out "Mom!"

I turned around just in time to catch her. She fainted. She passed out again and turned sheet white. Even her lips were white.

People in the gas station were so nice. showing their concern and trying to help. When we asked where the nearest hospital was one man gave us directions. Then before we could even get Missy into the car he had rushed up along side us in his truck and said he'd lead the way.

we rushed Missy into the emergency room where she was seen quickly. They ran tests and she slowly started to seem more like herself.

All the test were unable to tell us exactly what went wrong. We were told it could have been anything. Something as simple as getting too much sun to a start of a more serious problem.

She was released from the Emergency room with instructions to watch her closely for the next couple of days...like we had to be told that! We were so scared we will probably watch her like a hawk for the next several months. I've honestly never been so scared in my life.

Missy felt much better by the afternoon though she couldn't doze off in the car or even sigh without all of us worrying and asking if she was okay.

We stopped for the night at a beautiful hotel.

Day 3

Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada

Sunday

I have finally have access to Internet!!

Missy is doing fine today. We are still worrying over her and watching her closely. The fear of it all has not gone away for me yet. I was so scared for her yesterday.

We took it a little easier today and checked into a hotel early.

I nothing too interesting to report today. Other than nearly losing my favorite pair of sun glasses in a port a potty, my beautiful hotel having no coffee, and having to drive for nearly two hours before I found a place open so I could get my first cup, the day had been pretty event less. After yesterday that is just fine with me.

We've already been swimming in the hotel pool. the first pool we've found on the trip so far, and now I'm blogging and doing laundry while Hubby lets the kids swim again.