After a few days rest at the University in Fairbanks we hit the road. Fairbanks to Tok: rain most of the way. The next day we jumped back on the Alaskan Highway and crossed the border back into Canada. This part of the Highway we have not seen because of the detour we took on the Klondike up to Dawson City. The road was pretty bad with lots of road works and frost heaves but the views were spectacular. That night we made it to Whitehorse just as the heavens opened again. The forecast for the following few days was heavy rain, so we stayed put and had a movie-fest, four films in two days. Sweet!
After our film overdose we hit the road again and pushed on to Watson Lake, again all famila because we came through this way. This morning we hit the road early ish.. A 300 odd mile push to Fort Nelson and once again the rains cometh...
As we were riding today we got to see four black bears and then there was the Buffalo and the wolf! We say wolf because everyone on the road stopped to watch this lone wolf charge at the herd of Buffalo. The Buffalo were not intimidated and managed to chase the wolf off.... straight to us! thats when the camera came out, check out our little video
Tomorrow we should be at Dawson Creek and here is were we start exploring again.
Its been strange retracing our steps, even though we have six weeks left our thoughts turned to home, with that feeling of going back. Im sure we will slip back into exploration mode as soon as we get on unfamiliar terrain. Mount Rushmore and The Bad Lands in South Dakota or Saskatchewan ?????
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