06 August 2008

5 July 08

5 July 08, Saturday

The officer at the border was again very friendly; he even welcomed us back to Canada. We drove forever along Kluane lake; it is very cold, but I took a bath anyway. There is also a lot of construction along the Alaska highway; we spent half an hour to get by one busy site. When you watch the workers on their machines in all kinds of precarious situations; way up on steep slopes working with huge earth and rock moving equipment; you wonder that there are not more accidents.

We can chalk up a few more wildlife sightings: a pair of trumpeter swans; a wolf; a coyote and a number of horses which looked wild to us because they were just along the highway; no tame horse gets to run freely there.

We again joined a large number of campers spending the night at the Wal-Mart parking lot.

N 62º 43.961’   W 135º 04.106’