We made it to Whitehorse and thought we were going to have to sleep on the side of the road. All the campgrounds were booked. I managed to find a boondocker in Whitehorse for our second night when we came to the last campground in Whitehorse and they had an opening. We would have stayed two nights there but we had already booked for our second night. Anyway. we made it and we finally heard from Judy and Mike. They were only 5 hours away and would be there the next night. John and I had lunch at Burnt Toast in downtown Whitehorse, then we hit up a quilt store and a yarn store. Oh yeah! I found some really nice yard and started to knit my second scarf since I left home. I am remembering how much fun knitting was.

Judy and Mike arrived in Whitehorse and we planned to meet at G& P on Main. We had asked at the visitor center where the best pizza was and that is what she suggested. Fancy shmancy. Tablecloths and all. Most important, they had a bar. Unfortunately I am the only one who wanted a drink. I wish I could remember the name of the drink I had. It was amazing, from presentation to the last licked drop.

We had to take our picture after dinner as it was really dark inside. I don’t even think a flash would have worked. But everything was delicious.

We left the next morning for Alaska! What a beautiful drive–not the road, the views.

Judy got this great shot of us driving the Alcan. I would have loved to get one of them but, Mike liked being behind us to see where we bounced so he knew which direction to go. lol

We spent the night at Peace Island Park. It was nearly empty so we had a pull through and never disconnected. So easy to pull out in the morning. This is where we lost all signal. Pure torture. Seriously. We really didn’t need our gps’ because the Alcan is the only road–we just had to go in the right direction–don’t worry–we did. I never thought I would be so helpless without my internet. Helpless is really not the right word but I can’t think of another word to describe what it was like to not have service. I am so used “looking something up” whenever I want and contacting anyone at any given time. Naturally, there were a million things we wanted to ‘look up.” And a million people to contact. Ok, a million people is pushing it. When we set out on this trip the plan was to wing it as far as camping. And it worked out just fine. But usually we would start looking for a campground to book once we got about an hour away. Well, that wasn’t possible without the internet. We had planned on staying at Muncho Lake for a couple days to rest and go visit Laird Hot Springs. When we got to Muncho Lake they were full. So we continued to Laird Hot Springs and they were full but, they did have an over flow lot so we stopped there. Judy and Mike were going to meet us at Muncho. We did have a satellite radio so we could at least text Judy to let her know where we were.

Our night in the overflow cost $26 and included use of the hot springs. We took a walk to see them the night we arrived and headed down at 7:00 to take a dip. It was so nice and warm and so cold when we got out.

Along our trip on the Alaska Highway aka Alcan we saw 4 black bear, 2 moose, 9 stone sheep, more bison than we could count, 1 porcupine and 1 fox. We did not get a picture of the fox.

The scenery was beautiful as we traveled along the highway. Sometimes it is hard to not stop to take a picture but we knew we had a long way to go–and we did stop sometimes, just not as often as we might have had we not had a schedule.

We posted our sign at the Sign Post Forrest and took a hike to see Rancheria waterfall and we had a Fourth of July picnic along the river. Then went on to Whitehorse where we will finally meet up with Mike and Judy who have been booking it along the Alcan with 12 and 15 hour days just to catch up with us.