Day 15

I need to make a correction - the pine trees are Lodgepoles, I have no idea why I called them Logpoles. Forgive me, I'm old.

We heard a number of stories about the condition of the Alaska Highway but have found that it's really a pretty good road. The road crews appear to be on top of the frost heaves and repairs have been done or are underway. The rough spots are also well marked with signs. We've been pretty impressed.

Another thing I've neglected to mention is the number of hours of daylight - there are a lot of them. We go to sleep in the light and we wake up in the light. Fortunately, I don't have any issues with going to sleep so it's not a problem. It's just so weird. Today is the longest day of the year - I think Jan said there were supposed to be 21 hours of daylight - I don't know, I was asleep.

We got on the road at 8:32 and drove past lakes that looked like mirrors, meadows with streams running through them, and snow capped mountains in the distance. Along the way we met a couple traveling on motorcycles. They're from Vancouver and plan to ride as far north in Alaska as they can, head to the East Coast of Canada & the US, down to the South, across to the Southwest, down through Mexico, and end up at the bottom of South America. They plan to take 2 years to do it. Boy, do we ever feel like wimps - a mere 2 months and only to Canada & Alaska.

We stopped for the day in Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon. We stayed in a nice RV park but pretty crowded. We went out for dinner and there were no empty tables so a man invited us to share his. He was from British Columbia and was in town on business. He and Jan must have visited for an hour and a half solving all the world's issues. We stopped at Walmart to buy ice - they don't sell ice. Who ever heard of a Walmart that doesn't sell ice?