Day 16 - Watson Lake, YT to Whitehorse, YT

Jenks & Nancy Jenkins -               Thursday, June 24, 2010

Traveling from Watson Lake to Whitehorse

The day started out with the electricity turned off, the utility lines were being worked on. We decided to move the coach outside of the park, to give others room to hook up at their leisure and also to run our generator for a little breakfast before heading out.

As we drove along Hwy 97N you have gravel hillsides and placed on these hillsides were names, sayings and initials that people have placed, written with the stones from the hillside. This was nice to see, better than spray painting names on large rocks.

The scenery was just beautiful with each turn of the highway you could se the mountains off in the distance getting closer and all the trees in the thousands. I can see how someone could get lost in the woods here in Yukon Territory.

We didn’t see a sign stating we had just passed over the Continental Divide but we did stop off at a little Hotel, Restaurant, gift shop called Continental Divide, cute little place.

Today was a very uneventful day for wildlife, not one little animal was seen by us.

There were a number of bicyclists heading south, but that was it.

We had intended to stop at the George Johnston Museum but we stopped just before and then caravan #18 had problems getting their coach started. But not to worry, Wolf knows his coach very well and knew exactly where to look and got it repaired and we were back on the road in an hour. We decided not to do the museum and headed for Whitehorse.

Tonight we will be staying at Pioneer RV Park in Whitehorse, and we will have two full days of rest and exploring. I know that we are looking forward to the extra days here as I’m sure all of the other members of our caravan are.