Well so much for being on time with this load. This is a picture from the www.travelbc.ca webcame at the top of the Rogers Pass on the Trans Canada Highway in BC. These trucks are lined up waiting for the highways dept to bring down potential avalances. They do that with large cannons and send explosives into the snow to create an avalance, then clean up with loaders and graders.

These trucks are facing westbound at the lodge. We're down the other side facing eastbound towards Calgary, and waiting for the same thing. When we got here at 14:30, we were told it would be about 3 hrs. It's been almost 2 hrs and I was supposed to be in Calgary before 18:00. Sorry about their luck. Just hope there isn't a lineup at London Drugs waiting for some of this stuff from Richmond.

This whole trip has been a test. Left Edmonton Tues evening and got as far as Blue River at 4:00 AM. I just couldn't see anymore so I pulled into the Husky. Everythng looked okay, but when I tried to move in the morning, I was stuck. So were all the other trucks in the lot. I tried to chain, but already being stuck on ice, that wasn't going to happen.

Eventually, the person cleaning the parking lot showed up with a backhoe. One by one, he hooked a chain to each truck to his hoe and pulled us all out. It just took a couple of feet to get rolling and then everything was OK to go. He didn't even ask for money, I guess Husky was paying him by the hour because it was their parking lot and they hadn't kept it driveable.

Hopefully we'll make Calgary tonight, although it will be late. We've already been given a load to Ohio with an extra stop in Illinios, 2 extra stops in Michigan, and a final in Springfield, OH. I know there's lots of weather there too, but at least they keep the roads in better shape, hopefully.

Hope you're all safe and upright. This winter is already harder that the last many have been.

All the best in the coming months and Spring will be very welcome from my point of view.