Fact Check #6

June 6, 2006

We have been playing in Anchorage and enjoying our grandchildren. Annie is getting her dirt fix. Elmo is learning to clean the floor under the dinner table and I look out the window a lot. Here are some final numbers on the Alaska leg of our adventure:

· 9 times we crossed the Continental Divide.

· Traveled across four time zones.

· Drove through or close by 153 cities, towns and villages (had to be able to see the water tower).

· Identified 104 flowering plants.

· Crossed 79 major rivers.

· Passed through 6 states and 3 Canadian Provinces.

· Camped in 10 campgrounds

· Toured 2 US National Parks and 4 Canadian National Parks.

· Drove 4,602 miles from driveway to driveway.

· Loaded and unloaded the car 33 times.

· Saw; 1 grizzly bear, 5 black bear, hundreds of elk, 52 buffalo, 4 prairie dogs, 32 pronghorn antelope, 7 moose, 1 live coyote, 1 weasel, 12 bighorn sheep, 3 stone sheep, 4 deer (not currently identified).

Elmo would also like to tell you that he saw many ground squirrels and chipmunks, but was unable to catch any. He also asked me to report that he was severely handicapped by the leash.