Not much of our trek the last few days has been new. Except for a stretch between Fairbanks and Tok, then again just today from Dawson Creek, BC to Grande Prarie, Alberta. We've mostly been backtracking back down the Alaska Highway. The primary excitement for us the last few days has been the warming weather, and the budding trees and grasses on ground that was covered with snow on our way up. It's amazing the difference around two weeks can make in this season of transition! Our campsite at Liard Hot Springs looked so very different with all the snow melted and many trees and shrubs and grasses budding in various levels. It's been so fun to see all the green peaking through...it's given us an idea what this area lookes like in the summer-time. We once again spent the night in one of my favorite hotel/motel's: the Cozy Corner in Haines Junction. The view out our window from that place, of the Kluane Mountains...just breathtaking. We arrived around 8:30pm (we've changed two time zones in the last few days so I'm never quite sure what time it is, but it "felt" like around 8:30pm) and were both famished. We'd assumed Cozy Corner Motel had microwaves and were planning to microwave up some soup or something for dinner...however our room didn't have the microwave we'd been hoping for. Justin rummaged around our cold food items that would make a good dinner, and put together a delicious meal of chips and salsa (with salsa in the one-cup measuring cup) as an appetizer, a salad with italian dressing, PB& J sandwiches as the main course, with coolaid accompanying as a beverage. With the sun setting behind the Kluane mountains it was a nice dinner at the Cozy Corner Motel. We decided to grab breakfast at the diner this second time through Haines Junction, and each enjoyed the hugest hot cake either of us has seen with eggs and meat (justin ate my meat, I ate his eggs). The man who owns the Cozy Corner motel is accessible via a phone that one must call when you arrive, and he comes down from his home to check you in. He also runs the diner. When we were in Haines Junciton a little over two weeks ago, there were For Sale signs all over the diner and hotel, and the man was quite surly and unfriendly. This time, the For Sale signs were gone and while the man was still surly and unfriendly, he smiled from time to time, noticeably so. We're still trying to figure out what happened in those two weeks. Haha. Liard Hot Springs was lovely as ever, and with the budding green trees and shrubs we could see how the hot springs encourages the surrounding areas plant life, moss growing everywhere and extreme greenery. While swimming at the hot springs, Justin struck up a conversation with a few people we heard discussing the Alaska Highway, they were heading north. They were an odd group, didn't seem to be a family as there were about four or five men in the 20s-40s, and two women one in her 40s and one in her 20s. None seemed to be couples either. It turns out they're Jehovah's Witnesses, who are all moving up to Fairbanks from South Carolina to help a friend set up a church up there. They've left South Carolina behind to start anew in Fairbanks. They know they have a place to stay there, and have a purpose but otherwise know very little else. They were a private bunch, only one man seemed super interested in talking and he mostly talked to Justin. Interesting. We left Liard Hot Springs this morning and drove around 500 miles and are now in Grande Prairie Alberta. This area, once we were south of Fort St. John, feels similar to the American midwest (or Idaho according to Justin) with rolling fields of agriculture and beef cattle operations with spruce forests in the distance. Really beautiful in a much different and softer way than the mountains we've been in. We're heading down to go through Jasper National Park and then stay tomorrow night in Banff National Park.