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August 1, 2025
Mt. Vernon, Washington from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's our last morning on the road. We've crossed the border into the United States, and we're here to stay for a while. Probably a long while. We'll be doing more traveling eventually, but we have no plans to travel internationally at this point.

After the heat of the day before, we got on our way early. As it turns out, it never got very hot yesterday, but we took no chances. We needed fuel, and the cheapest fuel was down the road in the Ashcroft First Nation territory. As we drove ...

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Mt. Vernon, Washington from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's our last morning on the road. We've crossed the border into the United States, and we're here to stay for a while. Probably a long while. We'll be doing more traveling eventually, but we have no plans to travel internationally at this point.

After the heat of the day before, we got on our way early. As it turns out, it never got very hot yesterday, but we took no chances. We needed fuel, and the cheapest fuel was down the road in the Ashcroft First Nation territory. As we drove ...

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July 31, 2025
Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's our last morning in Canada. We'll cross the border into Washington state toward the end of today's drive. We'll spend one more night in Mt. Vernon, Washington, and then we'll make the last leg of the journey toward home tomorrow. We're all pretty well ready to be off the road.

So, let's back up to our drive from Quesnel to Ashcroft yesterday. Before I go on, I want to address a couple of things I said in yesterday's post. For one thing, the air-conditioning in the truck ...

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Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's our last morning in Canada. We'll cross the border into Washington state toward the end of today's drive. We'll spend one more night in Mt. Vernon, Washington, and then we'll make the last leg of the journey toward home tomorrow. We're all pretty well ready to be off the road.

So, let's back up to our drive from Quesnel to Ashcroft yesterday. Before I go on, I want to address a couple of things I said in yesterday's post. For one thing, the air-conditioning in the truck ...

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July 30, 2025
Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. We're moving closer to the Canada/USA border today. Tomorrow's post will be my last from Canada. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's talk about yesterday's drive, shall we? I started seeing barns and rustic structures right away after leaving Houston.


I've abandoned the Milepost for the remainder of the trip. I was looking up these little communities on Wikipedia as we passed through. We passed through a series of small communities associated with the many lakes we saw along the way. Here's another grouping of rustic ...

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Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. We're moving closer to the Canada/USA border today. Tomorrow's post will be my last from Canada. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's talk about yesterday's drive, shall we? I started seeing barns and rustic structures right away after leaving Houston.


I've abandoned the Milepost for the remainder of the trip. I was looking up these little communities on Wikipedia as we passed through. We passed through a series of small communities associated with the many lakes we saw along the way. Here's another grouping of rustic ...

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July 29, 2025
Houston, British Columbia, Canada from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. We’re another day closer to home. The roads have improved as we’ve moved farther south, probably because of increased population density. We’re still seeing some beautiful mountains. I believe the ones in the image below are the Seven Sisters peaks.


There wasn’t much to talk about until we crossed the bridge over the Skeena River. This was near the junction to Trans-Canada Hwy 16.


We turned east at the junction, and then crossed the river again. We traveled parallel to the river for many kilometers.


So, here we go. This highway is ...

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Houston, British Columbia, Canada from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. We’re another day closer to home. The roads have improved as we’ve moved farther south, probably because of increased population density. We’re still seeing some beautiful mountains. I believe the ones in the image below are the Seven Sisters peaks.


There wasn’t much to talk about until we crossed the bridge over the Skeena River. This was near the junction to Trans-Canada Hwy 16.


We turned east at the junction, and then crossed the river again. We traveled parallel to the river for many kilometers.


So, here we go. This highway is ...

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July 11, 2025
A Lake, a Farm, and a Garden from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. We had a lazy morning yesterday. We got up early enough, but then Mike and Smitty went back to bed. While they slept a little longer, I finished of the 7th of the Raggedy and Friends blocks.


Here are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.


When everyone was finished with their beauty sleep, we took off to find the Matanuska Glacier overlook. Well. That turned into just a slight fiasco. Before I tell you about what went wrong, just take another look at this mountain. Yes, it's the same one we saw ...

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A Lake, a Farm, and a Garden from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. We had a lazy morning yesterday. We got up early enough, but then Mike and Smitty went back to bed. While they slept a little longer, I finished of the 7th of the Raggedy and Friends blocks.


Here are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.


When everyone was finished with their beauty sleep, we took off to find the Matanuska Glacier overlook. Well. That turned into just a slight fiasco. Before I tell you about what went wrong, just take another look at this mountain. Yes, it's the same one we saw ...

read more
June 23, 2025
Hope, Alaska from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It was one of our longer days of driving yesterday. We had gray skies almost all day long with very brief sunbreaks. Somehow I was expecting more when we reached Hope, but it is what it is. I have lots to tell you about our drive yesterday, so let's just get right to it.

Right away after pulling out of the campground, we crossed over Kashwitna Lake. 


Here's what our Milepost says about it. Denali was not visible.


We passed through the little town of Houston, Alaska. 


Here's what our Milepost tells us ...

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Hope, Alaska from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It was one of our longer days of driving yesterday. We had gray skies almost all day long with very brief sunbreaks. Somehow I was expecting more when we reached Hope, but it is what it is. I have lots to tell you about our drive yesterday, so let's just get right to it.

Right away after pulling out of the campground, we crossed over Kashwitna Lake. 


Here's what our Milepost says about it. Denali was not visible.


We passed through the little town of Houston, Alaska. 


Here's what our Milepost tells us ...

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May 31, 2025
Dawson Creek, British Columbia from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. Well, we've made it to the first sight-seeing stop of our trip. Dawson Creek is the beginning of the Alcan Highway. Now that we're here, it occurs to me that we're really doing two trips this time around. We're touring Alaska, but we're also making something of a pilgrimage by traveling the entire length of this historic highway. You can read more about it at that link I've given you. Here's a little image of the route we'll be taking between Dawson Creek and Delta Junction.


It will ...

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Dawson Creek, British Columbia from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. Well, we've made it to the first sight-seeing stop of our trip. Dawson Creek is the beginning of the Alcan Highway. Now that we're here, it occurs to me that we're really doing two trips this time around. We're touring Alaska, but we're also making something of a pilgrimage by traveling the entire length of this historic highway. You can read more about it at that link I've given you. Here's a little image of the route we'll be taking between Dawson Creek and Delta Junction.


It will ...

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May 30, 2025
Prince George, BC, Canada from ... Cat Patches

Good afternoon, my friends! I'm starting this post from our stop for the night in Prince George, British Columbia. I won't post until tomorrow morning, however. For now, I want to caption my photos while it's all still fresh in my mind. We can finish our chat over coffee in the morning. Okay? Okay.

So we left Lone Butte fairly early. We had a shorter day of driving today...just 211 miles. We drove BC Hwy 97 heading north for the entire day. As I've mentioned, we're traveling a gold rush road, and so we ...

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Prince George, BC, Canada from Cat Patches

Good afternoon, my friends! I'm starting this post from our stop for the night in Prince George, British Columbia. I won't post until tomorrow morning, however. For now, I want to caption my photos while it's all still fresh in my mind. We can finish our chat over coffee in the morning. Okay? Okay.

So we left Lone Butte fairly early. We had a shorter day of driving today...just 211 miles. We drove BC Hwy 97 heading north for the entire day. As I've mentioned, we're traveling a gold rush road, and so we ...

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September 19, 2024
Home Again from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. Happily, I'm sitting at my desk at home to write this post. How are y'all doing? It's been a while since we've spoken while stationary. Feels weird, doesn't it?

So lemme tell you about the drive home, and then I'll tell you what's going to happen next. We left Klamath Falls under sunny skies. The road out of Klamath Falls runs alongside Upper Klamath Lake. It's the largest body of fresh water by surface area in Oregon. It is approximately 25 miles (40 km) long and 8 miles ...

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Home Again from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. Happily, I'm sitting at my desk at home to write this post. How are y'all doing? It's been a while since we've spoken while stationary. Feels weird, doesn't it?

So lemme tell you about the drive home, and then I'll tell you what's going to happen next. We left Klamath Falls under sunny skies. The road out of Klamath Falls runs alongside Upper Klamath Lake. It's the largest body of fresh water by surface area in Oregon. It is approximately 25 miles (40 km) long and 8 miles ...

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September 18, 2024
Klamath Falls, Oregon from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends! We're back in our home state this morning, and just a few hours from home. I know there are two 4-legged people who will be very glad to be out of the camper this afternoon. 

Let's back up to yesterday's drive. For the second time this trip, we traveled in three states. We left Reno under cloudy skies and the threat of rain, but look out there at that spotlight of sunshine on the hillside.

We're finally back in the land of barns, and I took a lot of barn photos yesterday ...

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Klamath Falls, Oregon from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends! We're back in our home state this morning, and just a few hours from home. I know there are two 4-legged people who will be very glad to be out of the camper this afternoon. 

Let's back up to yesterday's drive. For the second time this trip, we traveled in three states. We left Reno under cloudy skies and the threat of rain, but look out there at that spotlight of sunshine on the hillside.

We're finally back in the land of barns, and I took a lot of barn photos yesterday ...

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