Day38_39

Welcome! Day 38/39 (Sept 15/16) of North to Alaska

 

Quote: “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money.  Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”  Susan Heller

Today was a short driving day as we moved on the Whitehorse. The weather was pretty normal, raining, overcast, and cloudy. It did clear for a while once we reached Whitehorse but by evening it was raining again.  

Since it was a short 2 ½ hour drive we slept late and took our time eating breakfast. We actually got a few things from the grocery store and ate in our room. We checked out and left around 10:30. It was an uneventful drive to Whitehorse, we did have a short delay due to construction. It seems they are trying to patch all the roads before winter sets in. We ate lunch at Tim Hortons, Cassie seems to like this place I am neutral, but they do make a good grilled cheese for a light lunch. We then drove around looking at the sites. This took about 30 minutes since Whitehorse is the largest town in the Yukon Territory.  Whitehorse has about 25,000 year round residents where Yukon has about 34,000. So Whitehorse has near 75% of the people within its borders. Whitehorse seems to be a nice small town. In the summer it does have several activities for tourists.

We stayed at a Westmark Inn. This is a chain mostly in Canada and Alaska. The Westmark Inn in Dawson City has already closed for the winter. The hotel was nice. Our room had space although no wi-fi in room. They did have two PCs for guest use in the lobby but the wi-fi was very erratic and slow.

Scenery was still great. I did take a couple of pictures from a lookout over the Yukon River.

So ended day 38.

For day 39 we drove from Whitehorse down to Nugget City. Most of this road we had been on before on the way to Alaska. On the way up we did not go all the way into Whitehorse but turned off the Alaska Highway and went to Atlin and then to Skagway.

Before leaving Whitehorse we ate breakfast at McDonalds. McDonalds in Canada do not have biscuits so no Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuits. Cassie had her other favorite Egg McMuffin and I settled for a Big Breakfast. I was also able to use McDonald’s wi-fi to update the blog with a few posts. Their wi-fi works well. Then on to Nugget City for the night. This day was truly uneventful.

Yukon River from lookout outside of Whitehorse

Trees and Mountains from same view point