Saturday June 9, 2007

After breakfast we went by the Signpost Forest again on our way out of town. We added our names and the dog's names and the date to the sign. Then we were off to Whitehorse.

Stopped at Rancheria Falls and it was very pretty and then just outside of Whitehorse we stopped at a bridge and dam on the Yukon River. There was a trail along the river and a road down to the dam so we let the dogs run and were having a great time. On the way back, we heard someone calling our names and the Graingers had found us. They had gone on to the RV park and gotten a space, but they could only hold our space until 3 p.m. Since it was then 2:15 and we were a few miles out of town we gathered up the dogs and went on our way. Some poor guy in the gravel/sand parking lot that had a big rig w/ a tow vehicle behind it had tried to back up and really messed up his tow apparatus. We saw them later at the campground and there was no way that tow arm would work again....that would bum up a vacation! We have seen and heard lots of hard luck stories about mishaps and things that go wrong.....it happens all the time, only when you are on a vacation somehow it is a bit more challenging to get fixed.

It has been kind of a slow picture day. We had dinner with the Graingers and made our plans for the next few days as we are going our separate ways for a couple of days. We are taking the Klondike Highway so we can go to Pelly Crossing and they are taking the Kluane Highway up to Tok. We will spend 2 nights in Dawson City and they will drive over for one day. Then we will go on to Tok. But more on that later.

ADDENDUM: GRRRRRR!!!! Everything electronic has a Linda jinx on it I think! I had some trouble with the camera and lost some pictures. The ones I really cared about were the ones of us nailing up our sign at Signpost Forest. Somehow the SD card became corrupted. Oh well, I guess I will not miss most of the pictures, but.....still.....so a slow picture day and on top of that I don't have any to post anyway. So in lieu of timely pictures, I will post a few of some of the wildlife we have seen and some of the miscellaneous shots I have taken along the way. Hope you enjoy them! Tomorrow begins the Pelly Pilgrimage part of the journey!