The Journey Continues

We arrived in Prince Rupert on Sunday August the 26th around 4:30, having had driven over 1000 miles since leaving Seattle. We stayed in a older overpriced hotel not too far from the ferry terminal. Since the ferry was leaving at 7:15 we had to get up at 3:45 to check in. This amounted to little more than waiting in line, in the car for over two hours. We had enjoyed the drive through British Columbia but next time I would rather sit on the ferry for two days. We were a little exhausted by the time we got on the ferry so we tried to get a little more sleep in the lounge area.

Collin moved to the corner and put on his ear phones, Connor slept on either I or Maren. I leaned my head against Maren's seat and slept until my arms went numb. When I awoke I looked out the window to see a barge being pulled by a tug. The green and yellow containers were unmistakable those of Alaska Marine Lines. We had passed our belongings in the inland passage!

We arrived in Ketchikan a little after 12:30. We got off and went immediately to the address printed on the 1 year lease I had signed but we had not yet seen. (no pictures yet)

We arranged to have our container delivered to the house, ate lunch and met with the landlord to get the keys. We are now officially residents of Ketchikan. Well not entirely. We stopped by the high school to get Collin registered, since Tuesday was to be Freshman orientation. I turned into the high school to face an insurmountable amount of on coming traffic. One man started yelling at me and telling me to turn around. I had entered a one-way street the wrong way. As a struggled to turn the car around and get out of every one's way he commented after taking one look at the back end of the car, "You must be from Arizona?" Now I really felt like I had just gotten off of the ferry.