Hay River and on the net

Wow!! at last we got on the net. After Clearwater it was on to Hinton. Mt Robson was almost out (perfectly clear) completely, not very often that happens. The campground in Hinton was the KOA and we got 2 tenting sites that we split the cost on. No power but free showers and lots of wind. We got away around 8:30 am and our next stop was Grande Cache for gas. Time to put the rain gear on. It rained off and on all the way to Grande Prairie. As we crossed the Wopati River a small black bear came charging out of the ditch and at first we thought that he was going to hit the trailer head on. He managed to miss us and then he went straight for Dick's bike but then veered off before getting hit. It created a bit of excitement. After doing some grocery shopping in Grande Prairie and fueling up we headed for Dunvegan for the night. We had power there but pit toilets. Lots of wind the next day up to Gtrimshaw, where the tourist info lady was nice enough to take a pic of all of us, after that we got into a few more trees and that gave us some relief from the constant wind. It was rather cool riding. In High Level it was cool but once again we had power for our heaters. When we left High Level it appeared as though it was going to be just cloudy however we soon got into rain but not enough to put on our gear. We stopped at the 60th parallel visitor center and had a free coffee there. The visitor info was a brand new one from 5 years ago when we were there with Don & Hazel. We stopped at Enterprise at Winnie's cafe and had a great lunch almost everything was homemade. It sure was good bread. This poster Rick is holding is of Alex Dubroski the "Ice Road Trucker"!
We got a 6 pack of butter tarts to go and boy were they ever good. A fellow came in holding a UMCI membership card and said to us "Did anyone drop this?". It turned out it was actually his that Dennis Leonhardt had signed for him years ago. His name is Eric Bartlett, and what a talker! He lives at Enterprise NWT and runs a pilot car service. In Hay River we had lunch at the Woodshed and had their white fish "Fish & Chips" real good. Time for the girls to catch up on laundry. We toured around town and saw all we could. Irene and I stopped in at the Canadian Coast Guard Office, boy was that ever interesting. Their territory goes all the way up the MacKenzie River to Tuktoyukto.