Kreider Khronicles

Remember that tire mishap from yesterday, well we tried to get it fixed first thing this morning but that didn’t work out. Was told the garages didn’t open until 7. So we waited and waited. 7:45 rolls around and the shop gave us a call. He was running late due to a fire alarm that morning and would be to our location in 45 minutes. So to kill time, we decided to make coffee. We first tried to use the electric tea kettle in the truck outlet. Quickly learned the truck can’t handle the amps needed for the kettle. So, I stood outside next to the outlet to plug your vehicle in over the winter. And we made instant coffee. Only problem was I burnt my mouth and tongue so bad. So I said no to having anymore coffee.

Now we wait for the service guy. Around 9 o’clock the service guy. Within 15 minutes the new tire was installed and we were on the road again. Since our hotel didn’t have breakfast we ate breakfast on the road.

As we continued to travel through North Dakota, we noticed that as we saw more trees we knew that there was a house around that area.

Canada! We arrived at the border around 10:45. It is not an experience I need have again. It was the most nerve wracking time ever. We were both extremely anxious the entire time. At the border, we thought we would have smooth sailing. We gave our passports, showed our negative covid tests, paperwork for the guns and paperwork stating Benjamin had a job. Seemed like everything was going well but then he asked us to pull up to a garage door. Talk about anxiety going through the roof. So we pull off and pull into this building and our hearts sank. They were going to search our truck and trailer. We also had paperwork to fill out because of covid and moving to Alaska.

So we get out of the truck. Give the guns to one of the officers to make sure the serial numbers match what was on the paperwork. Then we left the truck and trailer to go fill out paperwork in the office. As we sat and worried and sat some more. We really hoped they didn’t search the trailer. We had it packed just right and it was driving nicely. Didn’t want to attempt to recreate it. In the office we explained why we are trying to get through Canada to get to Alaska. Within an hour we had the okay to continue traveling. We were informed that we had to take another Covid test within 24 hours after crossing. We got everything we needed and we’re escorted back to our truck. We got in and an officer told us how to get out. Upon further inspection as we left we determined they only searched the back seat of the truck. By 11:45 we started driving into Canada!

By 12:10 we hit another time zone which changed the time back to 11:10. We are now in mountain time, 2 hours behind PA. Then we started to see more snow. We kept driving and driving, Saskatchewan was flat just like every other state we traveled through. Right before we crossed into Alberta, we stopped for dinner in Lloydsville. We quickly realized that we hadn’t eaten yet all day. So we grabbed some gas station sandwiches and gassed up. At this point we had about 2 hours left of driving till we got to where we wanted to end at. So we kept trucking along.

After crossing into Alberta it started to flurry. The flurries were small, but didn’t last the entire drive. Kept coming and going. We finally ended our day in Edmonton Alberta. Once in the hotel, we tried to schedule our virtual covid test that is required by the government. We tried and tried but couldn’t get it to work so we decided to wait till the morning. In total today we drove 715 miles and made it into Canada!