Hello Canada...

Yes... I am currently in Canada! Let me begin this journal entry by saying if you haven't seen the videos and music slideshow from yesterday's posting, you really need to do that. In particular, the 2-minute music slideshow features some interesting pictures of Southeast Alaska that I took while traveling yesterday. It was an awesome day and in a remote part of the Canadian Yukon I managed to upload all of the information to this web site that I wanted to. However, today is going to be a different story.

Today my parents will continue to transport me farther north through Canada in order to get me to the Alaska border where Highway 2 touches Canada. Teachers should be able to point that out to students on a map. I will be spending this evening in a truck camper at the Alaska/Canada border and will not have access to the Internet, and likely no cellular phone service. So, you'll have to be patient to learn about the happenings of this day. I'll post information just as soon as I can. I hope that everyone has been enjoying their running and walking. Today is my last day off before I begin a strenuous stretch of running. In fact, over the next 4 days I'll run 137 miles, averaging a little more than 34 miles per day.

A Quick Note About Sending Me Messages...

If you want to send me a message, please do that through my guestbook. I'm receiving a lot of messages from children through my "Contact Paul" page and ask that kids don't use that page to write to me. That page is really only for adults or media people so that they have a way to send me a message. I can't possibly answer all of the messages that I'm receiving from children. So, if you're a child please only use my guestbook to send me a message. Thank you!

Hello From The Alaska/Canada Border!

Hello from the Alaska/Canada border. Today was a 140-mile drive from Destruction Bay to the border and although the skies were not as blue today as yesterday, it was still a beautiful drive. My parents and I had our second wolf sighting and tried to get some pictures. Aside from that, we have not seen any wildlife. Upon arriving at the border we went through customs and then stopped at the Border Crossing Lodge where they had a place for us to park the truck camper for the evening. Tomorrow morning I will begin a 30-mile run to Northway Junction (see map). My parents will drive out of sight and I'll once again be alone on the road with "Bob" - my trusty stroller! I spent time this afternoon building Bob (I had to take it apart to transport it on the ferry and by vehicle up to this point). So, Bob is ready to roll and I'm ready to run. The weather is really good. In fact, as I write this it is 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, and the temperature outside is 54 degrees! That's probably not the temperature report you expected from Alaska, but it is actually that warm. The snow is slowly melting and the roads are dry and clear. The nights are still getting rather cold (in the mid-20 degree range), but the days have been very nice. However, this is Alaska and things can change quickly here. You'll just have to read my journal each day to see if I run into any snowstorms. In fact, I just found out that it is supposed to get down to 25 degrees tonight with a 40% chance of rain/snow showers tomorrow and a high of 45 degrees. I do not have cell phone reception again tonight, so I cannot call my family. I miss hearing the voices of my wife and children and hope to be able to talk to them soon. I've posted some pictures in the right-hand column from my past couple of days traveling. Be sure to click on those to see larger images.

That's all from this Alaska milepost! Thanks for stopping by and be sure to run back here tomorrow.