Wednesday April 28

The overhead sign on the highway to Lynden, Washington said the wait at the border was 50 minutes. Shades of San Ysidro. We parked for the night at Herm and Joan's and arrived at the border in the morning when there was no wait. The first question the border inspector asked was, "Where are your firearms?" I answered, "At home." By design they aren't friendly and are watching body language during the questioning. He asked if we were transporting anything. I said we had some construction materials in the 5th wheel, but I guess it looked like an RV and he figured we couldn't get much in there. He never looked inside or he would have seen about 4000 lbs of building supplies and about 500 lbs of tools and hardware in the back seat of the truck, but the windows are dark and he never opened a door. We were in and out in about three minutes. That was a relief. I had visions of him making me unload the 5er to make sure we weren't hiding contraband. The rest of the day was spent going about 450 miles into Canada. Travel was slow because their season for repairing roads is short. We had to stop for about a dozen road repair sections. Tonight we are actually a bit north of "spring" in Prince George, British Columbia. No flowers up here yet and the grass has barely begun to grow. It's chilly tonight too. We have both electric heaters going and they only hold the inside temp even. Dinner tonight was simple but good. Mac & cheese with a can of tuna mixed in. It was still twilight about 9 PM. If all goes well we will be down by the coast where it is warmer in 3-4 days. I will probably do shorter days of around 300 miles once we reach the Alaskan highway tomorrow afternoon.