Watson Lake YT to Haines Junction YT

BRR! This morning was by far the coldest. If the little thermometer that we tied on to the roof was still working it would probably have said it was in single digits. That's OK though! Its not like we weren't expecting it to be cold, plus it was a clear morning, so there was nothing to complain about. On our way out of town we stopped to put our license plate in the sign post forest. It was fun walking around and seeing SO many signs. There were all kinds of different signs from all kinds of places. You could tell that some people were planning on placing a sign and had one made in advance, while other people just made signs out of whatever they had (Tupperware lids, plates, scrap wood, really anything.) It was fun to see some familiar signs pretty much right as we started walking around (Sequim Senior Center was placed right above a Fremont sign, we just pretended it was Fremont, Seattle)

We were once again treated to clear blue skies for our drive today, which made it really easy to spot all the caribou that were on the road! The caribou were pretty big and cool to see. We probably saw ten of them today in little 2-3 caribou groups. Every time we saw a group they were standing in the middle of the road, but as the car approached they would dash away back into the trees(which made them hard to photograph). We also saw a little fox looking guy right as we were pulling into town tonight.

We had lunch today in Whitehorse, YT. It is the capitol city of the the Yukon and by far the biggest(22,000 out of 32,000 people who live in the Yukon live in Whitehorse). On our way into town we stopped at the SS Klondike, which was at its time the biggest ship in the Yukon river. Tours of the ship only run during the summer so we just kinda wondered around it. There was a large window on the side of the ship that I wanted to take a look in. As I literally placed my hand on the side of the boat an alarm started to sound, so we got the hell out of there. Not fast enough though that a tour guide with a group of Korean tourists got off the classic and sarcastic "Nice job man". Other than that fun little stop, Whitehorse didn't really do much else for us (besides a stop at Starbucks).

After just a couple more hours of driving we pulled into Haines Junction. Its a little town of about 800 people. We got a nice room in the AlCan Motel. Just out our window is an incredible view of a mountain range.

 

There was a licensed lounge at our motel, so we went there after dinner and had a couple of drinks, played pool and rummy and had a nice time talking with the bartender and some locals. It was a really nice last day in Canada. We are excited about finally being in Alaska tomorrow!