Friday June 25-2011

Well, it is Friday eve and we have had a couple of days without wifi.  We really feel out
of touch, no e-mail, no cell phones. Wednesday we left Dawson Creek(not city) and we drove
to Muncho Lake, Canada(British Columbia).  We stayed in a "Provential Park."  What we
would call a State Park. No facilities or hook ups but a site right on the lake.  Very pretty
Saw some beautiful scenery and some wildlife.  We saw a Moose with a baby but were not
able to take a photo.  No place to pull over and too much traffic. We were very disappointed.
Sorry, Keely. We also saw some carriboo and some mountain goats along the side of the road.

Thursday was one of the best days we have had.  The lakes, rivers, waterfalls were awesome
and we saw lots of wildlife including a number of bison,
 some with babies. Got one good photo of mommie nursing her baby.  We saw a total of 10 bear throughout the day.  Mostly black bear but some brown also.  Some mothers with cubs.  Most of them were just grazing along the highway. We stopped for the night at Whitehorse, Canada in the Yukon.  A very nice RV Park.Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon with about 37,000 population.  We realized there was a lot to see here so reserved two nights.  It is nice to have a break from driving and riding.  We had a disturbing thing happen.  A huge semi flew by us going too fast and too close to the
center line.  He blasted us with a lot of gravel and broke the windshield of the motorhome.  It
sounded like someone had shot at us and the windshield looks that way also.  We took a photo
of an old WWII military truck at our campground.  We thought this is the way we will probably
look before we get home. HaHa  The roads are for the most part good but then you have stretches of
gravel and we understand that there is constuction ahead of us before we get to Alaska that is
going to be bad.  Some guys told us that it took them all day to go 150 miles.  Not excited about that.  We should come to that on Saturday.

Friday we were tourists in Whitehorse.  Of course our first stop had to be Starbucks for coffee.
Tried to post to blog there but never could get on line.  Our second stop was Walmart for
groceries.  Prices were still about twice what they are a home but that, we have found is good.
One gas station we stopped at yesterday we paid $5.35/gal for gas and they wanted $10.50 for a
12 pack of bottled water. We would have to be awfully thirsty to pay that!  We got a 24 pack at
Wallyworld for $5.99.  Sounds like a bargain, right.