The Great Whitehorse Way

We were now back tracking on the famed Alaska Highway. Whitehorse is an area that we had done a drive by on the way to Alaska. We decided to take few days and hang around the town and see what we missed. The coastal areas of Alaska are incredibly beautiful but the rain is never ending. That can be hard for a New Mexico gal use to seeing those clear brilliant blue skies. The sun came out in Whitehorse and all was well with the world. We tromped around Miles Canyon one day and also just had to see the life size airplane weather vane.

We continued to follow the Alaska Highway to where we first met up with it at the junction with the Cassiar Highway. This time we stayed on it. We stopped at Watson Lake to take in the famed sign post highway. Dang, why didn’t we think to bring our own sign?

The drive is much prettier than I was led to believe between Watson Lake and Fort Nelson. This area is the very northern edge of the Rockies. Think about how large of mountain chain that really is starting all the way up in northern Canada and ending in New Mexico! We saw lots of wild life along the way including mountain goats and buffalo.

We spent a night at the very beautiful and natural Liard Hot Springs. Ahh – so relaxing. One thing I miss about the RV life is being able to take a long hot bath and this fit the bill nicely.

Muncho Lake area would have much prettier if they were not doing road construction – it was awful. Cough, Cough!

Next it was on to Fort Nelson for a night or two and then on to Dawson Creek. Most folks start their adventure in Dawson Creek but we decided to end our journey to Alaska at the historic milepost 0 site. So now it was done, we made it to Alaska and back on the Alaska Highway and without a chipped wind shield! Now don’t fret, our journey is not over we are just shifting gears a bit and heading east and south towards the upper Great Lakes. I want to see a proper Midwest autumn this year.