Well, its Thursday and this is the first time we have been able to blog in a long time and a lot has happened. So, here goes......On Saturday we drove from Tok to Whitehorse over the only really bad part of the Ak Highway. It was slow going because the pavement is so bad probably do to the permafrost. Still, great scenery and a good ride. Tried to stay at Walmart, but it was full, must have been 50 RVs, tried the place we stayed on the way up, but it was full so we went about 20 miles down the road to another camp ground which turned out to be OK.
That night we decided to return via a little different route that did not look any longer on the map. We drove almost to Watson lake and made a right on 37 to go straight south. We spent the night dry camped at Boya Provincial Park, in the woods right next to a lake surrounded by mountains.......definitely the neatest camping spot of the trip.I fished a little, but could only get the lake trout to follow my lure, not take it. Took a long walk down a trail for about 45min., Beth thought a bear got me. The next day we continued down 37 400 miles of narrow, mostly no center line, no shoulders, no guard rail mountainus road with about 75 miles of gravel construction. It was unbelievably dusty and even though we had everything closed up everything got really dirty including the basement. The good thing is we saw bears 5 separate times including a mom and her cub that we watched for a while a I got some reasonable pictures. We also were stopped by a heard of wild horses on the road and had to wait for them to get out of the way. We spent the night at a nice private camp ground near the corner of 37 and 16 (about 550 miles Northwest of Seattle).
I can't tell you how bad everything looked after this stretch of road, so I decided to have the oil changed and filters checked on the motor home as well as wash things the best we could. We got it all done a few miles down 16 in Smithers. Very nice people......found a Cummings dealer to work on the motor home( he even power washed the front and back) while Beth and I washed the car, had lunch and went to the grocery store. The whole thing only took a couple hours and we were on the road again. We spent the night with 20 newly found friends in a beautifully Walmart Parking lot under a city no overnight parking sign with the gentle humming of generates in the back ground.
By the way, for an extended time in the for north we could not get our satellite radio and TV to work. They could not find a signal. Now that we are further south again, both are working fine......I can lesson to CNBC going down the highway and drive Beth nuts......nutter. We must have been over the curvature of the earth.
The next day,Wednesday, we drove to Jasper and then down to Lake Louise. We almost hit a black bear and 2 cubs.They walked right out in front of us, I knew we couldn't stop, so I hooked the horn and they stopped just long enough for us to get by before they proceeded across the road. This was a spectacular drive. Jasper Provencal Park is a must see.....it was great. I would like to have been able to spend more time, but by now we are both home sick and are pretty much deadheading home. Spent the night dry camped again at an overflow campground in Lake Louise and took off early this morning.
Crossed into the US around noon and tonight we are in Havre Mt at a nice spot. all is going well and Beth has not died from my cooking yet.........pizza tonight,roast beef, steamed vegetables and salad last night, rotisserized chicken from Walmart the night before, chicken Alfredo the night before that. Should be home in a few days if all goes well. Your driver John ( spell check didn't recognize rotisserized so your guess is as good as mine)