Tuesday:
Yukon Motel and Restaurant/Teslin,Yukon/CanadaWe are camping right on Nisutlin Bay. The wind is bitter, and there are white caps on the water. We traveled 162 drizzly miles today on the Alaskan Highway. It seemed to be a much more traveled roadway today, and it went fast in comparison to Sunday’s crawl for 309 slow miles.
Although we spotted a fox and a beaver on the drive in, what was more entertaining today were the messages individuals had spelled out in rocks for miles along both sides of this highway. The wording was mostly names and locations, but occasionally something different…human creativity prevailed. It was kind of “roadside graffiti…Yukon style”.
There is a restaurant on sight at this campground. The town of 450 people is near….about a quarter mile away. We ate here and used the campground wifi (which only works in the restaurant). We checked out a nice museum on the premises too, which showcases scenes with taxidermy. They had everything from bears (grizzlies and black) to elk….Arctic wolves to Polar bears….most interesting to observe their size in comparison to ours (and maybe a little intimidating…truth be known). They said the grizzly could average about 1000 pounds at it’s heaviest….evidently all they would have to do was fall on a person and it would be lights out I suppose!
Speaking about lights… we are sleeping in ‘daylight’ now…just a little dusky before morning. We blocked the light from our bedroom windows before we started out from Florida in preparation for this phenomenon.
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