Yukon 1

Wednesday, June 16 - We awoke to our second morning of sunshine!  Collins didn't appear to have any after effects from his dip in the lake yesterday, so we all headed up the last part of the Cassiar Highway.  It got narrower, with a lot more potholes and gravel patches, very bumpy in some places.  Joe did a lot of 30/40 mph driving today.  We passed lots of beautiful blue lakes, very large lakes in this part of the country, surrounded by pine trees and mountains, with no one fishing on them!  We saw one brown "black bear," but when it saw Joe's scary face, it ran back in the trees.  It is in this picture but you can't really see it.

We stopped at the Princess Jade Mine Gift Shop at Jade City, the mines provides 90% of the jade in the world.  Very pricey little shop, though.  They had a cutter outside who was very informative.  They had a beautiful chess set made out of jade and I forget the name of the pink stone.

We finally made it to the Yukon Territory today, and the Al-Can Highway, a major milestone in our trip.  We are at the Continental Divide Campground, heading toward Whitehorse.  Tomorrow we will reach the junction to Skagway and we need to decide if we are going to drive the RVs down there and take the ferry over to Haines, or drive the car down there.  The cost of the ferry will be a determining factor, if we can ever find out that cost.




Collins went fishing again this evening, but this time he didn't hurt any fish, and he didn't get hurt.  He did realize he lost his hat in yesterday's mishap, but he didn't figure that out until he was getting ready to go fishing tonight, and we didn't have to go back to try to find it.  Although when we were on our mission yesterday, Mazie's swimsuit happened to be in our car, left from the days we were in hot springs areas, and Joe kept trying to get her to go diving for the glasses.  I guess we could have taken her back tonight (about 214 miles, bumpy road), and she could have dove for the hat tonight.  Oh well, too late for that I guess.