7-1-2014 Whitehorse to Tok, USA (Tok RV Park, Tok, Alaska

We enjoyed a couple of hours of slow, easy preparation to get back on the road this morning in Whitehorse.

It has been a day of bumps, frost heaves, road construction, and dry, dusty road surfaces.

Once a pilot vehicle was needed to lead us through a 3-mile stretch of surface construction.  On the right side was a deep ditch which the construction company will help drain the water/moisture from the road which causes frost heaves.  

Have I mentioned how many trees there are in Canada and Alaska?  If there aren't mountains, lakes, streams, or wildlife to distract you, then you are looking at trees! 

Other distractions are the many kinds of vehicles that you meet on the opposite side of the road.  There are the motor homes, fifth wheels, slide-in campers, pull trailers, and Class C's. There are numerous motorcycles, and some bicyclists.  Their bikes are loaded with the storage units on both front and rear wheels.  I just wonder if they know how many long, steep hills there are in front of them.  

Then there are the U-haul trucks usually pulling a vehicle on a trailer, or vehicles pulling a U-haul trailer.  Glen and I have speculated that the u-haul trucks are being used by service men/women who are being reassigned, but who knows.  We have nothing to base that on.  

One other distraction is music.  We are too far north to receive XM Radio.  No more "Willie's House"--channel 53.  We are now listening to every CD that is with us.  Music has ranged from the Statler Brothers, LeighAnn Rimes, the Best of the 50's, Don Williams, Jim Reeves, to Ray Stevens, and Garrison Keillor and the tales of Lake Woebegone!

Wildlife report for the day is sparse:  a group of three elk, and 5 swans.

We have been in contact with Evelyn and hope to meet them tomorrow!  

I hope you are enjoying the daily reports.  Now that we are out of the full-steam ahead, put the pedal to the metal speed mode, and in new territory, there will some new scenery and adventures to report.