"Save Canada"

On our drive to Alaska we drove through British Columbia. It was so beautiful! We had a fun time converting the miles to Kilometers. I kept thinking the speed limit was 90 mph but no it was 90 kilometers, I was so excited there for awhile. The only wildlife we saw was the black bear pictured below.
We drove through the border near Belingham, WA, then drove up through Prince George to Prince Rupert, where we drove onto our ferry. By the way the gas is priced per liter not per gallon, and it is expensive!! We thought we were getting the best deals on gas, we were so wrong! Did I mention I drove the whole way, from Boise, Idaho to Ketchikan, AK (well really Prince Rupert, BC, Canada, cause you can't drive all the way to Ketchikan)








Once we got to Prince Rupert we stayed in a Hostel. Does anyone know what a Hostel is? Well we had no idea until we got there. It is a quite interesting way to lodge. It was preparation for our living situation here in Alaska. Basically it is a building/house with a living room and kitchen, which ours was down stairs. You walk up stairs and you have 3 communal bathrooms and several bedrooms, roughly 10 bedrooms. The bedrooms only had beds and a desk. We were not there very long, due to the fact we had to be on our ferry at 3 am. That really was not so much fun!! Unfortunately we did not take pictures of our room, or any of the inside, just the outside.






This is how we slept on the ferry, not so comfortable.



This is beautiful Ketchikan



This is how everything gets shipped in to this lovely island of Ketchikan. Check out the truck.