We sat and waited for the sunset last night, and at 11.30 pm we were still waiting, the sun was still visible over the horizon, and so we went to bed. We still don’t know exactly when the sun set!!
Which brings us to…………Happy 4th of July everybody!!!
We have posed ourselves a question, and wonder whether any of our readers can answer it.
Do they let off fireworks in “The Land of The Midnight Sun” to celebrate July 4th, and if so, what is the point, when there is no darkness?
So, we left the pretty campsite of Cottonwood and trogged on our merry way. (Another new word for your travel dictionary)
We had been warned about the bad road conditions for the next 200 miles or so, and they were correct.
The worst driving conditions we have ever seen. The road is built on top of the tundra, which is marshy on the surface, and then has permafrost below. During the summer, some of the permafrost thaws, causing the road to buckle and twist. Consequently it is like driving on a roller coaster, with big cracks in the road both sideways and long ways. The cracks are repaired, although still very bumpy, but the roller coaster sections are just left as they are. It is easy to spot the bad sections because an orange flag is stuck at the side of the road to tell you “It’s bumpy!!”
And, for about the last 50 miles in Canada, before we crossed the border back into good ol’ USA, the road was under repair, and even at 5 mph, it felt like the coach was being shaken to bits. And there was the previously mentioned dust everywhere.
We actually traveled over 400 miles which under the circumstances was excellent, so I’ve given myself a pat on the back!
Once again, the scenery through the remainder of Yukon Territory and then Alaska is absolutely stunning. There are distant mountains, some snow covered, some tree covered and even one huge glacier, with streams and hundreds of small lakes and pools, in between. All different types of trees, with many shades of green and silver. There are areas which were destroyed by fire twenty years ago and are recovering, and there are areas which have been untouched for hundreds of years. Beautious, beautious, beautious. (Compliments of the Wilda Searight dictionary)
We saw, right by the side of the road, standing in a pool eating stuff, a huge moose.
In fact he was that big he could be described as enormoose!!!
We really tried to see a bear, but didn’t.
Marlipops came up trumps again with our stopover site.
After being quoted $ 18.00 per night, for a site with no electricity, no water and just a dump station and being told we would not be allowed to run our generator, She located another wooded site, for one third the price, 35 miles to the West of Glennallen, AK.
Check today’s pix, and there is a free gift for the first reader to correctly identify wot is in the mystery pic.
Wildlife watch today was Mr. Moose, rabbits, white swans, bald eagle, rodent rat/ground squirrelly things, magpies, a hungry seagull who begged for my sandwich at a rest stop, and loads of ravens, who looked that hungry you could say they were ravenous!!!
On that particularly bad pun, we wish you a very goodnight!
