Day
15 – 5-26-15 Tuesday We ate breakfast, filled up with fuel and
departed Watson Lake at 8:15AM headed for Whitehorse for the night.
The scenery was kind of bland compared to yesterday for most of the
trip today. There were some beautiful areas where the mountains had
snow on the tops and places where the river were running near the
highway. We did not see any wildlife today except for one bird.
After
about 2 hours of driving we pulled into the Rancheria Falls
Recreation Site for a break and to take a hike to the falls. There is
a nice trail and boardwalk through the boreal forest to the falls.
There had to be millions of gallons of water rushing through a narrow
opening in the rock walls in the forest. I told Lena I had driven
4000 miles to see this. It was quite stunning. The hike was short but
the first time we have had a chance to do any walking though the
forest but we expect to do this quite a bit in Alaska when we aren't
traveling every day. After driving a couple more hours we stopped in
Teslin at the Nisutlin Trading Post. It is a community store with a
little bit of everything. We got some fried chicken for lunch.
Then
we drove on to Whitehorse and stopped at the Caribou RV Park for the
night about 2:30PM. After setting up in site 7 we unhooked the Toad
and drove into the city of Whitehorse and stopped at the Visitor's
Center to get some information. They have a Wal-Mart so we went there
to get a few items. I found something to fix the bad 12 volt plug on
my tire pressure monitor so I got it working again without having to
have one shipped to me while on the road. On the way back to the CG
we stopped at the airport to take photos of a DC-3 airplane that is
mounted on a metal post. It will rotate when the wind blows just like
a weather vane. After returning to the CG we walked over to the
Wolf's Den Restaurant on the CG grounds for supper. We ordered the
Jaegerschnitzel and Fancy Salad. This was the best Schnitzel we have
had since we lived in Germany. The restaurant and CG is
owned/operated by a Swiss family and they prepare everything fresh
when you place your order.
It
began to rain a little when we got back to the MH. The first rain we
have had since we left South Dakota. Maybe it will keep some of the
dust down. It is dry here and very few parking lots are paved around
the small towns so everything is dusty.
Yesterday
I was commenting on the good jobs the Canadians did with their road
signs. Well yesterday we were in British Columbia and today we are in
the Yukon. Actually as we traveled today we went back and forth over
the borders between the two Providences 7 times. The Yukon road
department is not near as generous with their road signs. Very few
curve signs and to warn you of a bump or bad place in the pavement
they set out a orange traffic cone with a orange flag in it where in
British Columbia they have a regular sign with a bump symbol on it
with the number of meters to the bump. We drove on a section of dusty
gravel for about 3 miles today in a road construction area. Anyone
that is thinking about driving to Alaska that likes to keep their
vehicle spotlessly clean either will have to accept that it is not
going to stay clean on the trip or will have to forget about making
the trip. Our MH and Jeep has never been this dirty but it will wash
off.
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