Saturday:
Bell 2 Lodge/Vernon, BC/Canada
We traveled highway 37 (Cassiar Highway) today, and I’m very excited to say…early in the drive, an eagle landed on the road right in front of our moving RV….Stan was in process of braking when it realized it had to take flight again, and just made it out of the way in time.   Yesterday one flew low…right over our RV windshield and that would have made a great photo, but…no camera ready!

Then there were the bears!  We  saw almost a dozen bears along this drive.  It seems to be a common occurrence on this route and is listed as so in the Milepost.  We pulled off on a road side stop for lunch…Stan did his usual maintenance walk around the RV….we ate lunch and pulled away to see a bear watching us drive off!

It was great fun watching all these beautiful creatures as we motored along.  We’re camping at a Heli-ski Resort.  They have a couple of helicopters on base that fly the skiers to the slopes.  They were working when we were there, only they were lifting logs and barrels of something around.  They said winter is their busy season, of course.  Photo following.
Pictures posted on the right under British Columbia/Yukon/Canada

Sunday:

Downtown RV Park/Watson Lake/Yukon
There was no wi fi at Bell 2 Lodge so we couldn’t bring up our Ohio church service online this morning.  In fact, we were in such a remote area, we basically only saw a rare gas station-grocery mix, restaurant or tourist shop…if there were churches, we didn’t locate one.  This also explains why Saturday’s posting is late.

So today was a traveling day,  We completed our journey along the Cassiar Highway…309 of the 449 miles, we drove today.  It was a long, bumpy, hilly, curvy drive… but the varied terrain and amazing scenery made for another spectacular day.  We saw very little traffic on this passage until we neared populated areas.  Most of today’s driving in the backwoods of Canada was not in sight of another vehicle.  There were more bears, and some wild goats on the road to keep us entertained though. 

Just to change the pace, we pulled over at a couple of tourist places found in the occasional  small town.  One that impressed us both was a  large jade business.  They told us that 90 percent of the Jade mined in the world comes from this region of Canada!  I would have guessed the orient.

Glad to be back in civilization tonight!  It’s kinda lonely out there!
Photos posted under British Columbia/Yukon/Canada