Yukon

July 13, 2011

Well, yesterday we drove up the “Tok cutoff” road toward Tok, AK.  It rained all day!  We had road construction in two places where we had to wait…didn’t make good time at all.  We had 27 miles of gravel road.  Now today we crossed over into the Yukon and have more road construction.  They only have 4 months a year to do it in so that’s the deal.  Marty is driving about 35 mph as are most of the cars meeting us.  There is nothing immediately behind us.  It’s not raining, but it is quite cloudy and in places the clouds are real low hanging.

We hope to stay somewhere near Whitehorse tonight, but that will depend on whether or not we can make some time on the roads later on.  Part of the problem here is the permafrost and the severe winters which leaves gobs of frost heaves in the road. 

Yesterday we didn’t see any wildlife other than ravens – today so far we only saw a fox.  I have also spotted a couple beaver houses.

While the small camper meets our needs pretty well, it’s not charging properly (the battery in the camper) and so that frustrates me.  It won’t charge up till we get to a place with electricity.  Oh well, we camped like that with our pop-ups for years.

7/14/11

Got to see another Grizzly Bear along the road today.  Rain, Rain and more rain.  Didn''t see any mountains...low clouds, ugly.  Sitting in MickyD's in Whitehorse to send this.  We'll head down toward Watson Lake which is still 271 miles from here.  We'll let you know if anything interesting happens as we drive through the rain :).  Did I say it is raining???