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Five Lakes Trail, Jasper NP

One of the best things about a vacation is coming home!!! - being in your own bed; laying your head on your own, smelly pillow; having your own space again! Even catching up on the mail, the weeds, the friendships, the bird happenings, the routines is a good thing too.

We arrived home June 24 to lots of humidity and rain almost every day since. Guess it has pretty much been the same since we left. We never realized how dry AK and the western Canadian are. Golly- the weather had to be one of the best parts of the trip.

Here it is - this post date is really July 4, 2009. It's taken me that long to catch up around here and finish this AK trip blog. At some point, our pictures will be labeled and posted someplace to share with any interested travelers. Certainly can provide lots of travel advise for anyone AK bound.

Additional comments and thoughts: The Canadian Rockies were every bit as spectacular as AK. If you only could go to one place, I would suggest Jasper and Banff NPs.

The AK national vehicle is either a pickup truck or an ATV!

AK must have more churches per capita than any other place in the world!

And 7 weeks away from home was too long! But we have lots of great memories - if only we can remember all of them! even some of them!

And Sarah Pailin announced her resignation as governor of AK on July 3! What would she have done if she was VP???