The weather has been in the high 80’s but a change is coming. The folks on the news say the heat is causing a water shortage. It sounds like home! On June the 3rd we entered The Yukon Territory continuing on the Alaskan Highway. We stopped after leaving the “Rip-Off” Lake to have breakfast because the ad in our Milepost said that “A thousand truckers can’t be wrong!” It was a quaint and homey spot. We got acquainted with several of those truckers. A good morning.
Trees, trees and more trees plus some rolling hills, pine trees and many more lakes. This is just a magnificent trip. We headed to Watson Lake for the night. It is a tiny town near the junction of the 37 highway south which will be our route back to the USA in a few thousand miles & a couple months. Watson Lake does not even have a fast food restaurant but they do have what the call the Sign Forest. It seems that there is a tradition of bringing your hometown sign or street sign or license plate or whatever sigh and post it in this acre or two area of town. It is a fascinating little place.
We pulled into the High Country RV Park. It’s the nicest place we have seen in a week. Bill & I are doing without TV most of the time, so a little Television was welcome. We got to see what our president was saying about our country in Egypt. (We have only been gone 17 days!)
After completing mile 3,400 and seeing 10 …yes … ten BLACK BEARS in one day along the side of the road in 5 different sightings on Thursday June 4th we arrived in Whitehorse the capital of the Yukon Territory. We were very lucky to be there because there was a forest fire threatening the highway. It was closed the day before and we were escorted through the danger are where we saw flames bursting out on the trees as we drove by. We heard later that the highway was again closed by the end of that day.
On Friday Billy was in need of a day of rest. The Moorhead’s are used to a quicker pace then we are. So the guy’s played golf and the gal’s caught up on what ever. Everything grows like crazy up here, even the grass. Bill said the golf course was like a pasture. The growing season is short being only 4 months without snow, but there is nearly 24 hours a day of sun. This is another interesting thing we are trying to get used to. Every single night we look at the clock and its 9 or 10 or 11 PM and it looks like 5:00 in the afternoon! It does not get dark this far north. It’s the first week of June and it’s twilight all night long. It's hard to go to sleep!
Dinner out Friday night included Musk Ox Stroganoff & Bison Steak on the menu. I had Halibut! Welcome to Whitehorse 37,000 population and that is 60% of the entire Yukon Territory!
Saturday brought us fewer mosquitoes because the wind came up a little. Oh I forgot to mention mosquitoes? Yes there are lots of mosquitoes everywhere we stop. You get to where you really just ignore them. I can not believe I’m saying that. I HATE MOSQUITOES!!! We spray all the stuff. But we all have the bites.
We visited the Klondike flat bottom paddlewheel boat, or Sternwheeler, as they were called from the 1920's. We enjoyed a wonderful historical tour of how gold & silver ore plus all goods and people too moved along the rivers.
About a third of the RV Parks so far have Wi-Fi but you only sometimes get it in your coach. So I find myself communing with nature at a picnic table and a few mosquitoes. I must be the lucky one because I only have three bites so far.
Today, Sunday the 6th of June, we left the Alaskan Hwy and head north on Highway 2/The Klondike Hwy to Dawson City. Now a few days rest!
There are so many folks up here just like us! When we leave here it's the top of the world Hwy to Chicken. These are places we have seen on our Holland Am.Tour 3 years ago but what a blast!
Alaska here we come.......Maybe 2 or 3 more days to Tok our first Alaskan stop!
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