Hi All: We are in Teslin, Yukon, Canada now. Got here about 1600 from our last campground. About 300 miles from here. Have lots of daylight here. Sun goes down about 1030 or so and comes up at 0400. Never gets really dark here.
Trip here was a tough trip. Had lots of gravel roads to go over, and dust is every where. Amy took soom photos of the dust. It was so bad you could not see 10 feet in front of the motor home, and naturally there is no wind to blow it off the road there, but when we get out on the open road the wind is 50 miles per right on the front of the Motorhome...Yuck. Has an adverse effect on the gas mileage. Got 7.1 MPG on this last fill up for $260.00+ About 45 gallons I think. Converting the liters to gallons, Amy figured this fill up was $ 5.55 per gallon. Better than the last fill up..at $5.88 PG. Looks like my figuring of $5 per gal was a little low now.....
Country out here is so beautiful. With snow covered mountians out in front, and then pretty soon we are driving right up to them. We have gone over the Contanental Divide 3 or 4 times so far. It was 45 when we left this morning, and now at this campground on a lake it's about 65 I think out side. Not a bad place, no TV, but we do have Wifi of course. They don't even have any radio reception here. Last night I found a radio station on the FM band of nice easy listening music, so we had it on the radio all night. I heard them say it is a Sirous radio station, so I figured he had his radio on in his motor home right next door and we were picking up his signal. Well, it turned out that was what was going on. Dorene turned it off at 0700 this morning. They forgot to turn it off last night. Glad they did. Have been playing the music on my CD's of all the music JoAnn has sent me over the years. Have a 10 CD player, with 20+ songs on each CD, so it's like a new station all the time....Thanks Jo....
We have seen lots of animals along the way. Saw a couple bears today, some Buffalo, some sheep, and a deer, and lots of beautiful mountains and snow covered mounts....Such a beautiful place to see. Like driving thru a post card as Bob said the other day......It is just like that.
The add for this campground said be sure to stop and have some of the best Halibut in the world at the restaurant. Well we checked and there is none. Guess they didn't get out to catch any, so we are cooking a dead cow for supper tonight. Had Buffalo a while back, and I am now off of that kind of meat, Just beef for me now. Might try a Elk burger if I come on one, but none yet.
The photo's are of our signs we posted in Watson Lake at the "Sign Post" where there are about 6800 signs from all over the world. Bob made signs for him and us to post with our names and where we are from. We walked around the place and saw signe from everwhere. What a place now that started in 1942 with a couple signs put up from Army guys who were lonesome for home and showed how far it was from their homes to here. It's was very interesting..
Well, It's 5 O Clock somewhere as Tom says, so I'm gone.
Semper Fi.
Don, Amy and Pharaoh..
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