Hi Everyone:
We have made it to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. We are about 507 Kilometers or about 300 miles from the Alaska boarder. We arrived here yesterday, for 2 nights. We’ll leave in the morning (Thursday) and go to Beaver Creek, Yukon for 2 nights. Then, we’ll do the boarder crossing into Alaska on Saturday July 8th.
We have driven about 5,000 miles since we left home and we’ve been “officially” on the Alcan since June 29th when we arrived that evening at mile 0 in Dawson Creek. We’ve taken our time so far on the Alcan. We’ve driven about 900 miles of the Alcan so far (the Alcan is about 1400 miles beginning to end, which is just before Fairbanks, Alaska). While on the Alcan, we’ve stayed at:
– Dawson Creek, British Columbia – 1 night; Fort Nelson, British Columbia 3 nights; Watson Lake, Yukon 1 night; Whitehorse, Yukon 2 nights.
It has rained for much of our time on the Alcan, and the driving has been slow at times. The road is in pretty good shape, with a few bumps and patches and frost heaves, but sometimes it has been foggy. Mud, mud and more mud! But the sun came out this afternoon while we were touring the city of Whitehorse and we’re happy for that.
We went to the Walmart in Whitehorse (I am truly becoming one of those “Walmart people”, I’m afraid!). We counted 40 RVs in the parking lot on our quick tour of the lot!!! It was about 5:00 in the afternoon, and the parking lot was full. I feel sorry for anyone coming in late and hoping for a spot….like we have had to do before. It is definately RV land out here. RVs are common place on the road, large and small and everything in between.
While in Watson Lake we stopped at the Sign Post Forrest. A tradition for many years, folks post a license plate or sign with their name or address or something like that. We didn’t post a sign, it was raining and we weren’t feeling it. I tried to locate the sign that Steve H. and Michael posted when they drove the Alcan a few years back, but couldn’t locate it. I read there are over 75,000 signs posted, and I couldn’t find any type of organization or way to locate one out of the masses.
Internet and cell service has been very spotty. I’ll post more in a couple days when (hopefully) I’ll have better service once in Alaska. I created another photo album, and have put the link below. It has pictures from the drive along the Alcan. Most of the pictures are from Steve’s “big” camera, but a few are from our cell phones too.
Animal count so far on the Alcan:
8 black bears, 1 grizzly bear, 3 Stone Sheep, 2 hawks, 1 eagle, 1 fox and 12 bison. We’ll keep counting tomorrow when we hit the road again!
A few photos below.
ALSO: link (I think I figured out how to make it an active link so you can just click) to more photos along the Alcan:
https://1drv.ms/a/s!Ap-2lg-EnL0pjw0Thk8jVj83U9qK
