In Transit

Again, just a short post without photos. We are in transit from Whitehorse to Grand Prairie. We left Whitehorse on Saturday morning and had an easy drive to the Continental Divide Lodge and RV park, which is located about 100 km west of Watson Lake. But before we arrived at the campground, we stopped at the Yukon Motel and Restaurant in Teslin and were treated by our friends, with whom we were traveling for the day, to the nicest grilled cinnamon buns we have ever had and a great cup of tea. Our stop for the night, Continental RV park is completely powered by a large diesel generator as there are no power lines. We had full hookups, a spacious level site with small trees, shrubs and fireweed separating the sites, and great neighbors next door, our traveling companions. We chose this location as we didn't want to stay in Watson Lake due to heavy forest fire smoke. We spent out last night of traveling together with a nice dinner and a few drinks in our 5th wheel. This morning, we said our good byes and we headed towards Watson Lake while our friends were joining the 1 KM line up of traffic that would eventually be led by a "pilot truck"down the Cassiar Highway, #37, through the area of the forest fire that is burning near the Yukon border. We hit the smoke about 10 KM west of Watson Lake and ran out of it almost 100 KM east of the town. A fairly brisk wind was blowing so the smoke was not very thick, just hard on the eyes and nose. We are spending the night in Toad River Resort and RV park. For those of you following us on a map, Toad River is on BC highway 97, located between Muncho Lake provincial park and Fort Nelson. The weather is cool here with light rain. The scenery today was spectacular again and we got pictures of buffalo bedded down and grazing - magnificent beasts.
We plan to overnight tomorrow in a place called Pink Mountain, which is also on Rt 97 between Fort Nelson and Fort St. John. If all goes well we will be in Grande Prairie on Tuesday. Wednesday will be spent topping up the grocery larder and starting our way north to Yellowknife.
The next post will probably originate in Grande Prairie on Tuesday.

Quote for the day:

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss

Cheers

P & N