7/20/15 WHITEHORSE, THE CAPITAL OF THE YUKON

Up at around 5 AM Pacific. We really slept late this day! Went wild and made Canadian link sausage and buttermilk pancakes! Yum Yum!  As we pulled out of the campground at 7:30AM we immediately ran into a Royal Canadian Mounted Police speed trap.  He nailed us! (LOL) This fellow takes no vacation days off, works 24/7, and made out of plywood and a little bit a paint.  Every community should have one.

Just south of Whitehorse is the Yukon Bridge.  We stopped to enjoy this rest area and walked the dogs.  Sugar didn't want to get her feet wet & Shiloh says the water is too cold.   This rest area has "upscale" facilities with 2 restrooms "aux natural" instead of one. WOW! 

After a 2 1/2 hour drive we arrived in Whitehorse the capital of the Yukon Territory. We stopped off at the Information Center and then headed to Wal-Mart for supplies to get us to Anchorage.  The Whitehorse Wal-Mart parking lot is a campground for many RVers.  They even have a sewer dump next to the gas station conveniently located next to the parking lot.  My brother would be impressed by this luxury.

High Country RV Park, located just south of town, is where we stopped for the day because we wanted to see some of Whitehorse and find a good place to walk the dogs.  We found an off leash dog park to let the dogs get some free running.  It was quite a well designed dog park  allowing the dogs freedom to run and sniff under the trees situated on a bluff near town.

After that we had to wash the "toad".  The little red car was pathetically dirty with gritty film and will get dirty again on the Destruction Bay part of the Alaska Highway.  Then we went back into town for some grub.  As we went into town, we passed the historical SS Klondike.  This old steamboat is now a museum. 

Whitehorse is a nice city with a population of about 23,000 (there are only 37,000 living in the entire territory. The Yukon covers 187,000 square miles or about 3 times the size of Georgia).  The information center recommended the Klondike Rib's & Salmon BBQ restaurant.  It's located in the oldest building in Whitehorse and is made primarily out of corrugated tin siding.  The decorations of the interior was quite unique, and the food was good.  I had Fish & Chips (Halibut) and Joe had a Smoked Salmon wrap.  Both were very good. 

We walked around town, went to a book store, purchased some audio books in anticipation of the long drive home and went back to the campground for the evening.  It was a good day.

Downtown Whitehorse

Tomorrow we will go approximately 180 miles and stop in the middle of Destruction Bay.  The campground we will be staying at is in the middle of the worst 100 miles of road conditions on the Alaska Highway.  We felt breaking this part of the trip into 2 days would be a little less stressful.   Last year it took us 4 hours to cover a 100 miles stretch of the road in this area and that was in a pick-up truck. This year we may face more difficulty given our size.

Stay tuned for pics of this part of the Alaska Highway.