Today we had travel tip # 324.
Don’t go into an internet café who tell you they are having a few problems, because they will be!!
We spent 2 ½ fruitless hours trying to get service, and eventually gave up. Then we went to an RV park to get fresh water for our trip, and while I’m filling up and checking things, Marlipops finds out that there was WiFi available for $5.00, and gets all our E mails done in a flash.
Brill.
So, we left Skagway after 3 very pleasant days, which was all down to Marlipops and the fact that we are not on a schedule. I was not keen originally to go there, but so glad we did. The scenery and wildlife I may never see again.
Back to today.
The long 11 ½ mile climb for 3500 feet was not as bad as I thought, we got back into Canada with no problems, and the weather has been clear and warm, so the views were even more awesome on the way back than on the way down.
We previously mentioned the area known as the moonscape, and if you look closely at the pic, you can see a definite change in the water color. This is caused by water from a glacier full of silt and marl, ( she’s there again!) the milkier color, meeting regular rain/snowmelt water.
The further Northwest we traveled in Yukon, the more remote and prettier it got.
We have though encountered some of the famous Alaska Highway road construction. We came round Lake Kluane which has some incredible views, through the worst loose gravel, wiggly wiggly roads we have so far encountered. Captain Cautious, driving ever so gently at about 10 mph, while Marlipops is oo ing and ah ing at the scenery that I have no chance of looking at, and then she is trying to take pix through 20 million squished bugs on the windshield, cannot focus on anything, ( except the bad ducks) so proceeds to open the window and let in half the dust in Alaska!!!
We have stopped at a beautifully located campsite on the lakeshore, so we can get some laundry done, but the place only has 15 amp hook ups, and as the coach draws 50, we have to decide which appliance we can have on at one time!!
It is wonderfully clean and a long hot shower after all the road dust was very welcome.
The cost is more than we normally pay, when we do pay, but the views of the lake and mountains are stunning.
Wildlife watch today was disappointingly nothing, though I did think about seeing a grizzly, and sorry no beer report either.
