Whitehorse to Jade City

6-24-06 Traveled 332 miles today
Watched the sunset at midnight then at 4 am the whole horizon was orange through the trees outside our window. Beautiful!! Got up about 5:30, had breakfast then washed the trailer with the power washer, dumped the holding tanks and were on the road at 7:10. The sun was out and it was cool. The right trailer light isn't working again and Harold tried several things, but nothing worked. As we drove farther east it finally felt like we were leaving Alaska. The snow topped mountains were now in the distance and the tree line has dropped so we have trees all the way to the tops of the mountains around us. Still lots of rivers and lakes all along the road. We stopped at Johnson Crossing for those delicious cinnamon rolls and even bought a couple for tomorrow's breakfast. Bought gas at Teslin for $1.09 with our 3 cent discount card.
Saw a black bear 142 miles east of Teslin just after crossing the Continental Divide. The pickup about a mile ahead of us did a u-turn so we started looking for animals and there was this huge black bear. It was a grizzly, very dark and very BIG. We stopped on the side of the highway and took our pictures, he was about 100 yards away. Then continued on to another gift store at Nugget City where we parked in their lot and had our lunch. Stopped about a half mile farther on and filled with gas again. This time it was $1.21/liter which amounts to $70.01 for 150 miles of driving.
Turned south on Highway 37 (the Cassiar Highway - pronounced Cass E R) and about 20 miles down the road saw a smaller black bear cross the road about 50 ft in front of us and go up the hill on the other side. Then another 48 miles and there were two adults, two babies and one teen ager sheep on the road. The RV in front of us had stopped to take pictures, so we stopped behind them and got a few shots also. Most of our shots are of the sheep going up the hill to get away from those crazy tourists.
The Cassiar highway was very rough at the beginning, but after the first ten miles hasn't been to bad. Not much traffic, few cars, few freight trucks and mostly RVs that don't want to go too fast and shake up the stuff in their trailers. Not many turn outs, the the ones they have are large and usually by a lake. There is no striping and the road is narrow in spots but we took it easy.
Tomorrow will try to get to Stewart/Hyder or at least to the junction of the road that goes to them.
Tonight we are in a free RV camp in the trees at Jade City. Only two of us are here. Guess people thought if it was free must be something wrong with it!!
Thought about my agility friends at Lacey this week end. Sure hated to miss that trial.