Back to Whitehorse and Watson Lake

Cindy had always wanted to stay here,

so we did,

we noticed that all the places around this were closed,

I asked the woman at the desk why so early,

she told me that they had to,

5 Grizzly's were in the area and last week they chased some tourist,

she said not to worry they were here also,

but that they have never had any garbage there

so they just come and eat the berries,

sometimes when they get drunk on the berries

they come into the parkBeautiful park on Kulane Lake


These are the bushes, late at night, I took the dogs out in there 3 feet radius outside the motorhome door, and we all heard grunting, Cindy did too

There is nothing around here at all, they have their own generator that runs 24 hours and provides you with 15amp service

That's the little window that I stick my head out of to take pictures, I have to look around the wheelchair lift also

If you look closely you can see the brown silt from the glaciers in the water

We were glad to see that blue VW bug there, they were camping and looked like they were going to stay at the campground next to us even though it said it was closed

These white wildflowers make the ground look like it has snow on it

Back on the road to Whitehorse and then Watson Lake

The road is pretty bad in a few areas

A cemetery

We go through a blasting area where they are doing road work

Right outside Whitehorse, bet it saves them some money

The famous Whitehorse entrance

The second of the three churches built out of a quanset hut

We see the bridge that we crossed over on the way to Alaska,

it has pavement on it now

Still, a little narrow passage way

We stayed in Whitehorse only one night, at a newer flashier, we've got wifi place, their wifi didn't work either, wish we had stayed at the older place

We are in Watson Lake, their claim to fame is the Sign Post Forest, no wifi though, they've got it, but it doesn't work

In the 40's, when they were building the Alaskan Highway,

a soldier smashed his foot and was sent to Watson Lake to recoperate,

a dozer had ran over a sign that had all the places and miles

to the homes of the people who were working on the highway,

they asked him to build another sign,

he said fine, but could he put his home on there,

as he was homesick, they said sure,

and in 1994 he came back and had tears in his eyes seeing

what he had started

It must be at least 4 blocks by 4 blocks,

the townspeople take care of the signs

Post hole digger must have found that rock

There were a few fallen signs, must have signed out

The nut fell off of the special bolt for the step,

and it must have rode for awhile like that

because the threads were stripped,

I showed up at this man's automotive shop

and he cleaned the threads up and found me a nut,

asked him how much and he said no charge

that I just had to go to their parade today and see him in it,

said sure, I'd be there

It's Discovery Day, in Canada, on Monday, the parade is in honor of that

I love small town parades, everybody enjoys it

Think that's caribou antlers on that tractor

All the fire engines were blasting there horns, you couldn't miss the parade

This was my guy, he built this airplane and it flies, he said

Said he was dressed up as the Red Baron

We took off after the parade passed by, off to Hyder, Alaska