July 5, 2007

Up early and still fuming about Delta stuff.....had breakfast and left RV park to go back into town...thought of a few more gifts we needed to pick up. Spent the morning strolling the shops and looking at all sorts of stuff....mostly junk. The stuff that is not junk is really expensive! We loaded up on shirts, etc. Left town about 1 p.m. to go back to Whitehorse. Still cloudy and rainy.

Drive back was uneventful...On this drive you can see the White Pass and Yukon RR trains that bring up the tourists from town. The RR is on the opposite side of this gorge. We have done the train rides and it is great. We enjoyed watching the trains all the way back. They seem to leave about every hour or so. Lots of waterfalls and mountains....of course. That is main part of scenery around here. Will post several pix, but not much more to say about the drive. I think I have said a lot about mountains, waterfalls, canyons, gorges, glaciers, trees, etc. We have seen LOTS and LOTS of all that!!!

We drove along several LONG LONG lakes - I am talking miles long. The drive is gorgeous. Lots of alpine type scenery....lichen covered rocks, LOTS of little lakes, snow, almost dwarf trees - a surreal landscape. Then the closer we got to Carcross, there were lots and lots of LARGE lakes - I am talking MILES long. The main town along this route is Carcross and it is at the beginning of one of these lakes. A very small village with some quaint structures and close ties to the White Pass and Yukon RR. Just out of town we stopped at the Carcross Desert - the world's smallest desert at a mere 644 acres. The desert is what remains of a large glacial lake w/ a sandy bottom. When the glacier retreated, the sand was left and is constantly whipped by the wind so it only supports a minimum of plant life...a few lodgepole pines and kinnickinick (whatever that is).

We finally got back to Whitehorse around 4:30 I think and sweet Barb had dinner for us. We visited and planned the next few days' driving trying to get a feel of where we needed to be and when. It's hard to believe that this is coming to an end in a couple of weeks. All for now....



Frank and Barb waiting on us to get back...had dinner, planned day tomorrow and then bed.

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