Day 27
Today we left BC and arrived in the Yukon; and we did that 6 times since the road meanders around the border. Another short drive today which gives us time to do things at our destination. Today, the ladies shopped (and bought next to nothing; saying it was all too expensive), we went to the Northern Lights Centre for a show about the aurora borealis, then to the sign post forest and visitor centre. The forest has 68,000 signs placed by people who have come through here. The first one was by a private in the US army in 1942, it blossomed from there. Marcel found the sign from Brian and Leslee that they posted years ago.
On the drive today we saw: one young grizzly (at least we think since it sure did not have the right colours for a black bear), one black bear, and a herd of six horses on the road (we thought they were wild, until we heard a bell on one of them).
It was guys night to cook, so we ate out tonight...
I think I mentioned earlier that the 'top of the world" highway was closed and we may have to change our itinerary; we heard today that the road from Tok to the Alaskan border with the Yukon is now open (many thanks to Rosemarie for getting her sister to contact the Governor for us). We hear 15 miles of road was washed out in the flooding, and one lane is now open with the help of a pilot car. We all want to get to Dawson city; but that decision will be made in 2 days when we get to Whitehorse and see the most current report.
I'll pass the message on to Dawn .... LOL
ReplyDeleteTrip sounding awesome. Stay safe.