At last.......a beautiful view out our motor home window! ( the16th)

The campground we stayed at last night in Watson Lake, Yukon had WiFi; but they would only give us 2 hours of use. I finish posting my blog with only 8 minutes of time to spare!  We are so use to having unlimited WiFi and cell phone service everywhere… that it’s odd traveling without it.  Most of the day today we didn’t have any phone service and we made it through the day without it quite nicely.  It brought back memories of traveling years ago, without any connections to family & friends besides a Ma Bell pay phone.  We may have given our parents our license number and general whereabouts in case of an emergency, in hopes the police could find us. 

It is summer… so lots of road construction is going on, even in Canada.  Besides having different road warning signs than the United States, they also have different ways of doing road repairs, especially in the mountains. It was interesting to see their ways compared to the U.S.  Here’s some pictures of multiple pieces of machinery, in sync with each other, repairing a stretch of the Alaskan Highway.       

   

Not much wildlife today… a black bear, caribou, and fox. However, we did see 2 open range, wild horses.  It was wonderful to see these creatures being able to roam free.  Of course, we again enjoyed all the beautiful scenery we saw out the front window of our motor home.  We went through towns today that had great historical backgrounds to the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory from 1896-1899.  Some of these small towns grew to thousands of people.  One of those towns was Whitehorse.  It was the center of communication and transportation for the gold rush in the Klondike because of the Yukon River and 

mountain passes nearby. 

Imagine steamboats on the Yukon River during the gold rush, carrying miners and material to the  Klondike.

   

 In the early 1900's a belt of copper deposits were found along the western slopes of the Whitehorse valley.  Between 1967-1982, a second period of mineral production of copper, silver, & gold worth almost 500 million dollars was mined.  More discoveries
 may be in the future using modern 
techniques of mining to detect ore.

The Alaskan Highway follows the edge of Lake Kluane in the Yukon.  Around each bend, you absorb more picture-perfect scenery.  Much of Lake Kluane is open water; but as we traveled further towards its northern borders, there were chunks of ice still floating.  The shoreline has piles of ice, which Bill couldn’t resist climbing.  

With the lake and ice and mountains 

in the background, it was a perfect place to camp for the night.

The name of this campground is Canyon Creek Park.  We have stayed here before and as we were pulling into the entrance, we saw a grizzly bear grazing.  If anyone plans on sleeping in a tent here, you have to pitch your tent in an area that has a wire fence around it. That’s a little too scary for me!  We enjoyed that tent camping stuff when we were young; but now…our age has allowed us a few more comforts and safeties of home… in the woods.  So tonight… we finally are relaxing by a fire with an Old Fashion in our hand and have a great view out our motor home window.

We're new at this selfie stuff...

missed the mountain behind us.

"Our perfect view" out the

 motor home window!