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20050724 Whitehorse YT 53/74 Cloudy in Haines, Partly cloudy in Whitehorse. Cool. Picture Link
Up and out of Haines behind the noisy diesel on a quiet summer Sunday morning. Bet we woke half the town going uphill out of the campground and up Main Street.
Then we ran up the Haines Highway (still beautiful) to Haines Junction and rejoined the Alaska Highway at Haines Junction.. Just east of Haines Junction, the construction area began; it ran for 15 miles. We were lucky, though, in that it was Sunday - the only folks working on the road appeared to be the team refueling the big machines. There was one tremendous backhoe working.
A couple of motorhomes were picking their way through the construction zone at about 10mph; we passed them and kept going. Then we came out onto a recently completed segment that was great! We cruised along to Whitehorse with a minimum of bouncing and excitement. No animals - they must have loafed this morning with the residents.
We rolled into the Hi Country RV Park and checked in. They said we should have been here yesterday, cause that's when our reservation was for. We checked our spreadsheet and came out right, so I can't imagine who miscommunicated. They had room in a water/electric only site, so we took that.
Then came the fun of bending the little house into the site. It didn't take too long, but it required a couple of passes to clear the trees guarding the site. We set up and I went in to do some laundry and internet.
I can't imagine what's going on with our e-mail. We should have had a couple hundred messages (including the spam), but only had 11 - and they were all spam. Everyone who reads this, please reply and say you received it.
Then we went out to dinner at our favorite restaurant north of the 49th parallel, Pandas. Lizz says she and Rudy intend to stay another five years, so we'll have more shots at it. Outstanding European/Canadian food, great hospitality, nice room. We got on famously as usual and left with regret they don't host a place in PCB.
We did a little walking around downtown then returned to the little house. We walked around the campground and talked with a couple people, especially a lady who had owned an RV park in Vancouver that was bought out. Now they are full-time RV residents until they find a permanent home.
As we walked around the park, we noticed rigs of every size and description. I guess that proves something. There was everything from a tiny peanut on wheels (that had an attached screen room) to truck campers to Class C and Class A motorhomes to conversion vans to a Mercedes dormitory on wheels. Incredible.
We also watched a neighbor with a bigger fifth-wheel than ours back into a site about the size of ours. He said he was a novice at this, but he snuck it in after several passes. When he finished, the slide-out room was two inches from two trees. Talk about snug!
We complimented him, then came in to do the spreadsheets and this set of notes. Now we'll read for a bit and get ready for tomorrow's 260 mile trek to Watson Lake, YT.
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