Scenery along the Alaskan Highway
Entering the Yukon
Mr. Bear
Largest Gold Pan in the world
Lake Kluane - largest in the Yukon
some strange monument in Haines Junction
Scenery on Haines highway
Scenery along Alaskan Highway
Picture taken from the ferry, this is a view coming into Haines
Day 8 Friday
Ate Breakfast while waiting in line for the Ferry to Haines. Just a 2 hour and 15 minute ride. Heading out of Haines towards Haines Junction then to Fairbanks, will be in Fairbanks tomorrow afternoon. Ate lunch at mile post 33. This was the first time we have actually eaten a meal out. We had burgers, they were really good. A friend of David’s recommended we stop there so we thought it would be worth checking out. Was well worth it. It was very busy too. The restaurant was made out of logs. Cool place. Drove many miles again we are now 1,930 miles from home and will be adding on to that tomorrow. We are staying in Beaver Creek for the night, in the Yukon not far from the US border – finally a place we camp at that had Internet available so I was able to catch up on my blogging. It was a beautiful drive but the Alaskan Highway is in desperate need of work - frost heaves all over the place. Had to drive most of it at 40 mph. Today’s wild life consisted of this bear eating bear grass along side the road. We stopped and rolled down the truck window and even backed up to take his picture, he was probably less then 30 feet from us, he didn’t seem to care at all. It made our day. And our other big highlight of the day was finding a brand new tire in the middle of the road that had bounced off of someone’s vehicle – “Freebie!!” Matt likes to run into those sort of things – oh, reminds me – he also found a leatherman in our campground in Juneau. BONUS!! Believe it or not we are all still getting along well, Aaron did have a moment today but got over it – Too much sitting in the truck waiting for the Ferry. But that part of the journey is over and after today we should not have to have such long days of driving. Once we are on our way home we hope to spend more time in campgrounds fishing and exploring then driving.
Ate Breakfast while waiting in line for the Ferry to Haines. Just a 2 hour and 15 minute ride. Heading out of Haines towards Haines Junction then to Fairbanks, will be in Fairbanks tomorrow afternoon. Ate lunch at mile post 33. This was the first time we have actually eaten a meal out. We had burgers, they were really good. A friend of David’s recommended we stop there so we thought it would be worth checking out. Was well worth it. It was very busy too. The restaurant was made out of logs. Cool place. Drove many miles again we are now 1,930 miles from home and will be adding on to that tomorrow. We are staying in Beaver Creek for the night, in the Yukon not far from the US border – finally a place we camp at that had Internet available so I was able to catch up on my blogging. It was a beautiful drive but the Alaskan Highway is in desperate need of work - frost heaves all over the place. Had to drive most of it at 40 mph. Today’s wild life consisted of this bear eating bear grass along side the road. We stopped and rolled down the truck window and even backed up to take his picture, he was probably less then 30 feet from us, he didn’t seem to care at all. It made our day. And our other big highlight of the day was finding a brand new tire in the middle of the road that had bounced off of someone’s vehicle – “Freebie!!” Matt likes to run into those sort of things – oh, reminds me – he also found a leatherman in our campground in Juneau. BONUS!! Believe it or not we are all still getting along well, Aaron did have a moment today but got over it – Too much sitting in the truck waiting for the Ferry. But that part of the journey is over and after today we should not have to have such long days of driving. Once we are on our way home we hope to spend more time in campgrounds fishing and exploring then driving.
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