Discovery Bay to Whitehorse, Yukon

6-23-06

Sorry there have been no pictures. I have a hard enough time just getting on wi-fi and the blog spot site has trouble downloading my pictures. When I get home and have all day, I hope to be able to add a bunch of pictures.

Today we left at 7:30 and drove to Whitehorse, Yukon arriving around 11:30. We checked into the RV Park just east of town, washed the truck (it was FILTHY) and went to town because I couldn't get the wi-fi to work here in the park. Harold went to the transportation museum at the airport while I checked out downtown. Now Harold is changing the oil in the truck and I found another building in the RV Park where I could get connected.

We drove around Kluane Lake which was almost totally frozen when we went by on May 31, but is now totally thawed. Some upheaved roads, and a couple of places where they are doing construction - one place with a pilot car to follow for a couple of miles. For the most part the roads were pretty good.

Haines Junction has a downtown someplace, but we didn't find it. There are 811 people in residence, but they must hide in the woods! Whitehorse is a larger town right on the river and just like in Alaska there are bike paths and places for people to be outside.

Saturday we plan to get to Nugget City that is at the junction of the Alaska Highway and Highway 37 which is the Cassair Highway. Will head south Sunday morning assuming all goes well. It will take two days to get to Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK which will be our next stop.

We had sun all day today and only saw a some raven and horses that were open range grazing along side the road. They say the grizzlies come out just before dark, but since it doesn't get dark don't know what time that would be. I was awake at midnight last night and saw the sun set at midnight, at least that is the way it seemed to me.