Day
43 – 6-23-15 Tuesday We departed the campground about 8:30AM drove
through Haines Junction and turned onto the Haines Highway. The part
of the road through the Yukon was probably the best we have been on
in several days but that changed when we crossed into British
Columbia. The surface was rougher but not bad until we come upon a
section about 5 kilometer long of road construction. We had to wait
for a pilot car.
There
was very little traffic on the road this morning and we were the
first vehicle in line. As we were talking to the flag lady we noticed
she was holding a bug zapper (the kind that is battery operated and
will zap a bug if you hit it) in her hand. I asked her about it and
she said yes it was a bug a zapper and she really needed it with all
the bugs bothering her, especially the horse flies. There were a lot
of horse flies buzzing around.
When
the pilot car began leading us through, the driver didn't drive on
the one side that had not been ripped up yet, she took us on the
bumpy gravel side for the 3 kilometers. Near the end of the 3
kilometers they were beginning to rip up the remaining side. We
didn't understand why not take us on the smooth side until we got
close to the area where they were ripping it up and then switch to
the gravel side. Oh Well! They don't use a pavement grinder like the
road crews in the USA. They had two road graders with rippers on them
followed by another machine pulling a heavy disc that was chopping up
the chucks of pavement and also tearing up the road bed. Oh Well!
When
we finally got past all the construction the landscape in the area
didn't have any trees, just mountains on both sides and bushes but no
trees for a long ways. The area did have plenty of gophers as they
were scurrying all over the road. The area through Chilkat Pass was
really pretty.
About
45 miles from Haines we passed through US Customs. He asked us a few
questions, wanted to know about our egg and wanted to see the carton
they were in. Lena told him she had them in a container and we did
not have the carton. He wanted to know where we got them, she told him
Valdez. Then he wanted to know where we were going. I told him
Haines, like where else could we go on this road. There is only one
town and the road stops in Haines. He waved us on.
We
checked in to Hitch Up RV Park in Haines, got our site #68 and
unhooked the Jeep and went across the street to the car/RV wash. It
was a coin operated hand wash with a high pressure wand that was
supposed to have soap in the spray but it didn't. And there was a
sign saying no bucket washing. Well we got our bucket and brush out
and washed the Jeep since there was no soap in the spray I knew just
the water was not going to get the Jeep very clean. It cost $2.50 for
3 ½ minutes of water. We finished with the Jeep and drove up the
street and got some lunch before coming back to get the motor home
and take it to the wash place. We had to wash one side drive out turn
around and drive back in to wash the other side since the wash wand
would not go over the roof to the other side. We used our bucket and
brush again.
There
is definitely an open market for some good car washes in Alaska
because we sure have not found one.
We
returned to the campground, set up and started some laundry. This is
a nice campground, really clean, everything neat and well laid out
with full hookups, 50 AMP service, WiFi that works and cable TV. The
only one we have been to that has green grass for the sites, gravel
for the roads through the campground and the hookups are where they
are supposed to be. The lady that checked me in was from the
Cary/Apex area of North Carolina. Her and her son are here working
for 3 weeks. I think they might be related to the owners.
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