Well, the Yukon is huge, amazingly beautiful, and majestic. Everything is on a grand scale: dozens of lakes and rivers, hundreds of miles of spruce and lodgepole pine, and mountain ranges on the horizon. For a few days, we’ll be close to the border with British Columbia and will then travel southwest to cross the border into Alaska and go to Skagway. We hear that it’s a tourist town, owned primarily by the cruise ship companies. Stayed one night at the Yukon government campground on Watson Lake. No boat, so we couldn’t go fishing, but we met more great Canadians and one small squirrel who likes graham crackers. All the Canadian government campgrounds (national, territorial, provincial) are superb. 6 July: Tom is fishing tonight on Teslin Lake. I’m sitting in the camper looking at some
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