MyDreamWalk

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Toolies

Just outside of Delta Junction I pass a lot of farms. You really don’t know they are there if you fly by in a car along the Alaska Highway.

“Right now we’re grown barley, oats, wheat, grass seed and hay. Why hay is fetchen $19 a bail. That’s good business They got a lot of horses in Fairbanks and they all need hay”, the rugged, weary looking, farmer had told me. “I got some livestock too. Why one fella is raising llamas.”

Armed with these data to consume my thoughts I plug onward. The Alaska Highway started for me at mile marker 1422. For others this is the end of the highway which starts in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. And I am really enjoying walking among the “toolies”, the local name for wildflowers.

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