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Yesterday we left the Jasper Park. Very nice park, one of the one we called home for 8 nights. We spent some time in the town of Jasper. The town of Jasper is a well kept and beautiful tourist town in the north east corner of Jasper Park. We drove east toward Edmonton on highway 16 to where it intersects with 40. Highway 40 takes us north to Alaska. This highway is a constant up the mountain and then back down the other side. Very steep accents and then the old 7% grade descents for 175 miles made for a long day. We were accompanied by logging trucks and other RV going north and south. The last part of the way we had stiff head winds and rain to add to the mix. We pulled into Grande Prairie, AB, in the rain and wind about 1930hrs local and made one right turn that found us in a Walmart parking lot. The computer popped up and indicated that "one or more wireless found" and in just a minute we were hooked up. Nice how things just work out. That is how it has been this whole trip, everything works out just fine. I did some email, surfing the web, and calling with Skype. Skype has been a life saver because our cell phone does not work here.
In the morning, it was still raining when we woke up. Walmart opened for business at 0800, so we did our shopping and ate at the McDonalds inside. We spent around $100 Canadian dollars, but we needed to stock up. The wunderground indicates wind and rain ahead and if we hang around this town for a while, the weather might get better. This is a place of 50,000 and has a lot of attractions, so we will spend some time here.
Here are a few select pictures that Jay took.
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John
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