Whitehorse, Yukon

June 20, 2012

Headed out at 6:30 today, ( I hope this is not a trend and we start heading out an hour earlier every day…) but I was awake at 5:50 so we just got up and headed out.

Today we saw 12 bears before 9:00 – two brown bears, and all the rest were black bears.  We also saw our first fox today – it was red and sitting in the grass by the road, also before 9:00.  There were also bison just hanging out where ever they wanted, and a few deer.   

We made it to Whitehorse, Yukon this afternoon.  We drove 400 miles today, giving us a total of 4697 miles that we have driven so far!  I wonder if you divided that by the number of bear we’ve seen, how many that would be…. : )

As I sit typing this, it is 10:22 and we can still see the sun reflecting off some of the other motor homes.  We are staying in High Country RV park tonight, so we could use the laundry and WiFi and take hot showers with all the water we want!

We passed a lot of country today – if we went southwest, we could be in Alaska in 2 hours, by going to Skagway, but I think we are going to keep heading to Tok.  We only have 389 more miles to go to get there.  

We went to a Walmart tonight, umm, very different than ours.  No fresh veggies, some, but not much food, so we went to a Superstore on down the road.  Ummm, not like any store I have ever been to, first you have to pay a dollar to use their carts!  I of course refused to do that – those of you who know me well should not be surprised to hear that, : ) and said I would carry what we needed before I paid to use a cart… which I did until I found a small produce box that had been used to hold peppers, and I snagged that and put my food in it.  We didn’t need much, just wanted to get some coffee and creamer, and dish soap, etc.  One thing they did have that was pretty neat was quail eggs!  Always wanted to try them, but they said they were good until late July, so that made me nervous, and I decided against it.  

We made pizza tonight in our cast iron skillet – that has been the best cooking utensil… the pizza was perfect, crunchy and soft at the same time, and so were the biscuits that Charlie made in it a few days ago. 

We have washed clothes and Charlie has cleaned the windows.  I have cleaned the kitchen and bathroom and I think we are ready to go another 4700 miles.  I don’t know if we will actually make it to Tok tomorrow, the roads are getting rougher and rougher, so you have to go slower, but we are very close… and we will be in Alaska soon.   : )