Saturday, July 7, 2007

Up early as Jerry and I were headed into Watson Lake to revisit the Signpost Forest since I lost the pix of us putting up our sign. It is only 22 miles down the road. Barb and Frank not sure if they were going to wait on us or not and if not, we would catch up with them along the road.

We got to Signpost Forest, found our sign and got the pix made. It is still a very fascinating place and I could spend hours there wandering through all the poles and looking at the signs. On the highway side close to the entrance there was a pole that had a Tupelo MS sign on the top and a Gulfport Ms sign on the bottom. I thought that was interesting. I was also fascinated by all the stuff that people have used to make their signs including a toilet seat, hard hat and toaster. We also looked in a couple of shops for Jerry's hat...he found one and got it, but not exactly what he wanted. I looked for some t-shirts as well.

Met a guy who was on his way to go salmon fishing....he was interesting to talk to. Had a pickup truck camper on a flatbed truck and the space underneath he had a freezer to put his fish in. He was planning on staying several weeks to fish in Soldotna. He comes up regularly for the fishing.

Back in RV and headed back down the road. We had heard lots of horror stories about the Cassiar Hwy. and how bad it is. It is pretty bad, but so is the Al-Can in places also. They said the worst part was the part we drove first. It was pretty bad - lots of dirt and gravel parts and LOTS of construction.

One of the major stops along this road is Jade City. Over 75% of the jade in the world is mined close to here. We caught up with the Graingers there and they had gotten some jewelry and other stuff. I picked up a couple of items, but that was it. I really liked the chunks of jade that were outside and I should have gotten one or two for bookends. They were very pretty. Frank and Barb drove on as they had been there a while and again we would catch up w/ them later.

As we drove on down the highway we were beginning to look for an RV place where they might have stopped and came upon Dease River Campground. What a GORGEOUS place! However, no Frank and Barb...they had gone on to Dease Lake campground which did not have the setting or ambience of the other place. However, the other place had no hook-ups at all so it was strictly dry camping.

Went to the store to pick up a couple of items and drove back down the road to check out a campground supposedly on the lake. It had no hook-ups either and only 15 sites and was not especially what it was advertised. Back to the RV park and bed.