This blog is about part 1 of my 20,000+ mile car-camping trip with my dogs from DC to Alaska via Labrador. Part 1, in 2011, was to the end of the road in northeastern North America in Labrador and then on to Quebec and Ontario, 7609 miles. Part 2, which took place in 2012, picked up where Part 1 left off in Ontario and was supposed to extend to Banff and Jasper National Parks in the Canadian Rockies, but Leben, my male German shepherd, became paralyzed on the trip so we cut it short. We will finish the journey in 2013, when we will return to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

Day 32, 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, September 20th, Lake Bukemiga, here we come.

I am so excited. Today, in just a few short hours, we will be at world famous Lake Bukemiga, where the rich, famous, beautiful and powerful mingle and party. I am right now a the intersection of highways 11/17 and 527 ready to head north. Wow, I cannot believe it. Me, Eddie, at Lake Bukemiga. What more could I guy ask for, besides the long list I already enumerated elsewhere on this blog. I wonder if I should head into Thunder Bay to rent a tux for the casino, if they have one. Or perhaps a pair of opera glasses in case they have an opera house. (I sure hope Anna Bolena isn't playing as I will see that in NY in a few weeks.) if they have a coliseum, will it be Barbara Striesand, Wayne Newton, or lady gaga playing there?Or maybe I should get more cash or my credit card limit raised so I can go wild in the fancy boutiques there, if there are any. And perhaps I'll pick up so gourmet food here in the event there is no Whole Foods equivalent there. Wow, just think it it. I traveled all this distance just to come here, and then turn around and go home. I am even told that the Northern Lights are quite visible that far north, a the end of the road.

The sun rise rise here until long after 7:30 but it begins to preview it's debut before that, so I made sure I was up for it. If the show that the sun out on this morning was the only thing good about this trip, and it was not, the whole trip would have been worth if for that one display of colors, shapes and beauty, just as the 24 mile ride during the access road to SGPP was one beautifully display of autumn before it officially starts tomorrow.

Off to Bukemiga. Standby for my report tomorrow.

Ed

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