Blogs from Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada, North America

Bonjour à tous, Une journée bien longue, malgré un kilométrage moyen. (pour moi) A la différence d'hier le revêtement de la route est parfait, les montagnes sont légèrement plus hautes, j'aperçois même de temps à autre la neige. A la sortie de Whitehorse, je vais longer 2 grands lacs, le Marsh et l'Atlin, qui sont superbes, avec la lumière tamisé du matin. Le ciel est légèrement voilé. Ce n'est que pour les yeux, d'ailleurs pour une grande partie de la journée, pas pour les photos. Ce samedi matin je quitte Whitehorse, à 8h complètement endormi. Je veux arriver pas trop tard à Watson Lake, car je n'ai pas pu réserver d'hôtel, et pour y avoir déjà couché 2 fois, et je sais par expérience que c'est un noeud routier important, et qu'il y a relativement peu ... read more

We made it to the Yukon Territory! ? Decided to leave the beauty of Muncho Lake after Don caught his fish. The limit is two and he figured since he hadn't had any luck from the shore and only caught one from the boat that we would mosey on down the road. Ended up in Watson Lake at the Downtown RV Park with all the other Caravans. This place had 80 sites and they were all full! We were packed in like sardines. It is nothing to look at as evidenced by the picture I took the morning after everyone left. Basically just a gravel parking lot but it has wifi, 50 amp, AND cable TV! Therefore this place is a 5 star?!! We got in early because we knew the caravans were headed here and ... read more

After a superb dinner at the Lodge’s restaurant, and a very restful sleep, we woke up to a monsoon going on outside our RV. To say we were disappointed is an understatement, as this next stretch of the Cassier Highway is known as the most scenic. We were hopeful that the weather would clear as we headed north. Ray and John unfortunately had the outside jobs of disconnecting everything and trudging off to get rid of the garbage. The plus side was they didn’t need to clean the windshield of bugs this morning. We decided to see how far up towards the Al-Can (Alaska-Canadian Highway) we could get today, and hopefully find an RV park that had internet. As we drove along, we had glimpses of what was hiding behind the clouds and rain, but did ... read more

Well plans change. We left Tok and planned to go to Watson Lake to stay but instead got to Whitehorse and we were tired so we found a motel. Whitehorse is and interesting town with lots of history. It is the capital city of the Yukon. 27,800 folks live here and it was part of the big Yukon gold rush. Supposedly it has the least air pollution of any city in the world. Since I have already been this way I took few pictures. Same on Day 17 as we went to Dease Lake BC Dease lake is in the middle of nowhere and we had no phone service and no internet hence the combination of two days. We did meet a few other bikers who were at the same establishment and we sat and shared ... read more

Day: 23/24 Distance: 8224 Well yesterday was dedicated a driving day. I had already been on this stretch of the highway so the goal was to get as close to BC as feasible. I got to Watson Lake which was my original destination at around 10:30PM (it was a long day though I did lose an hour leaving Alaska). I'm not sure why I said that this streach was just full of trees and implied it was rather boring because I was mistaken. I must have been talking about leaving Dawson Creek going west on the Alaskan Highway (also referred as Alcan Highway) when I wrote that opinion. In fact, the drive was very beautiful with large lakes, majestic mountains and lots of lots of rain. I'm also not sure how I forgot that portions of ... read more