Blogs from Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada, North America

July 9, 2011 – LIARD HOTSPRINGS, BC TO WATSON LAKE, YT. This morning before we left Liard Hotsprings we stopped in at the Lodge and took a few interesting pictures of the Elk Head, the Moose Head and an Albino Bear Cub. As you will see from the pictures, we also had a bit of fun as well!! Our drive today was most interesting. The further north we go the landscape becomes more interesting and spectacular, but the thing that was the highlight of today was the number of animals we saw along the side of the highway. I believe we saw about 6 Black Bears and many Wood Bison. The Bison are calving and one pair we came across was a mother with her newborn calf. The calf was very unstable on his legs, so ... read more

It has been touch-and-go with internet service for several days and no cell service for 2 days. Hoping to get something better as we move northwest to Alaska. Monday morning - the DHL facility should be open and have our sign for the Sign Forest. Off we go to Twilite Services where we find that DHL delivered on Wed last week, but nothing else since. No sign!! So, off to the Sign Forest with the hope that we can come back through Watson Lake, post our sign and be a part of history for future generations. The Sign Forest was very cool. I am posting pictures of some fun signs. For Debbie McCutchen, I looked all over for a Roll Tide sign, but could only come up with the Auburn sign I took a picture of. ... read more

Well I'm here in signpost city and trying to continue my blog. We left Medicine Hat Sunday the 11th and spent the next three nights at Stoney Nakota Casino where we took side trips to Banff and Lake Louise. We took an alternate route the second trip and watched two Elk grazing on the side of the road. Fellow ESKP Ted Applegate arrived and we set out for the Snaring River campround ( not a large RV friedly place ). On the way North through Banff Provincial Park we noticed several animal overpasses that had been built to allow migrating animals to pass over the highway in relative safety. We spent the night at Snaring River Camp Grounds before departing for Grande Prairie the next morning, it was a beautiful drive through the Canadian Rockies and ... read more

As we left town, we passed a local landmark, a signpost forest. during construction of the Alaska-Canada highway in 1942-1942, one of the soldiers asked if he could put a sign about his hoemtown on the signpost of distances to cities. He was given permission and that started a signpost forest. Janet thought about a cribbage board we had that was shaped like a fifth-wheel trailer and suggested that we add it to a signpost in the forest . so, we did! That was fun. Later, we took a nice nature walk to a some waterfalls. Nancy is using the Milepost, a publication that lists something for almost every mile on the AlCan and any other road that connects up to it. It listed the waterfalls as a good walk, and it was right! Later on, ... read more