On The Road With The Bradys

09/01/08 Thursday

We traveled with Bill and Rossana Hayes from Albuquerque. We went from Whitehorse to Watson’s Lake, which completed our travel on the Alaska Highway. The 266 miles that we drove today was a repeat of one day as we went north. The only difference was that we were going from North to South. We had planned to stop for lunch at Mukluk Annie’s but we found it already closed for the winter. We continued down to Swift River Lodge and found it closed because it’s well did not pass the Health Department inspection. We finally found a place for lunch at the Continental Divide Lodge.

We got some pictures when we passed here going North, but we didn’t get much today because of the clouds and rain. They would have been repeats anyway. I think that we did get a couple of pictures of the pretty fall colors on the roadside and mountains.

We arrived at our RV Park about 2:15 PM. We are all set up and tucked in for the night and it is only 3:00 PM. Maybe I will go to bed early tonight. We did some stuff yesterday after I summarized our stay in Whitehorse. We took a boat ride on the Yukon River that lasted two hours. We hoped to see some wild animals along the shore, but we didn’t. The only thing we saw was two Bald Eagles. We got pictures of them and should include them on our blog. The Yukon is around 2000 miles long, which makes it the fourth or fifth longest river in North America. It is the principal river in the Yukon and Alaska. It drains about three fourths of The Yukon Territory and half of Alaska. It is the source of much of the history of the gold rush because it was the main means of transportation during that period. We felt like we were going back in history a little as we traveled on the Yukon.

Last night in Whitehorse some folks saw the Northern Lights. One guy got up at 2:45 to go to the bathroom. He looked out a window and saw the sky lit up and went outside to check. They woke up some of the people close to them to see it, but did not wake everybody. I am sorry that we missed that. Oh well, maybe it’ll happen again tonight.

We are really winding down on our trip. Today began the last week of our trip!!