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September 19, 2009, a Saturday
Salmo Lake, Yukon Territory, to Contact Creek, British Columbia, Canada
— The Alaska Highway: Teslin and Watson Lake
We took it easy this morning after pushing ourselves the last few days to get down the road. I worked on a blog entry while J cooked a big breakfast of cheese omelets and potatoes. I made whole-wheat toast and used the toaster in the office so I wouldn't be in chef-J's way in the kitchen. Also had coffee (me), tea (J), and OJ. It was nice to relax over a tasty breakfast, and we watched a young red squirrel running around outside. I did the dishes, then we prepped the RV to move. Turned the RV around, then hooked up the Jeep to tow. We left at 10:57 and continued heading south/east on the Alaska Highway.
We stopped at the Teslin Tlingit Heritage Center in Teslin at 11:47. They're open from 1:00 to 5:00 in September which was just fine because J only wanted to photograph the totem poles that were outside and she wasn't interested in paying the entrance fee to see the inside exhibits. We left at 12:21.
We went to the Yukon Motel in Teslin at 12:28 for an extended stop. First we filled up the RV with gas ($1.099/l), then filled up the RV fresh water tank and started some laundry. We dumped the gray and black tanks, then I had lunch in the RV while J went inside the restaurant to go online through their wireless internet connection. When I went to put the laundry in the driers, a woman said she had already put our stuff in a drier, and had put $0.50 in each drier because she had a lot of laundry to do. That was a first! Unfortunately, she had set both of the driers to Hot, and my mostly-synthetic clothes think "Hot" should be called "Melt," so I quickly took my stuff out of that drier and put it in a new dryer set to Low. I took my Mac into the restaurant and went online for a while before going back to keep an eye on the laundry. After the laundry was done and I had folded or hung the critical stuff, I went back into the restaurant to continue working online. Unfortunately, J said the net connection had gone down shortly after I had left. We returned to the RV and left at 2:39.
We entered BC (British Columbia) at 3:09 and I listened to an episode of Car Talk. We returned to the Yukon Territory at 3:56 and it started raining as we went under a dark layer of clouds. We went by Rancheria Falls at 4:12 and kept going because it was raining heavily. We stopped at 5:21 to consider photographing two grouse by the side of the road. We decided against it because the setting wasn't the best and we would have had to get on the other side of them for the light to be good.
We stopped at Wye Lake Park in Watson Lake at 5:54 where we planned to go online using J's Verizon USB stick and have dinner. We couldn't get online, so we left at 6:07.
We went to Campground Services at the east end of Watson Lake because I was able to get online using my Verizon USB stick back on July 14, 2009. J discovered an open wireless internet connection, so we used that instead. It was a nice fast, and free, connection. :)
We had dinner there at 6:55 of fajitas with the frozen leftover prime rib from dinner at The Homestead with Ken and Chris Day, and they were most tasty! :) (You may read about that dinner on my blog entry for September 12, 2009.) The fresh guacamole was also really good.
I did the dishes, then continued doing some computer work with the nice internet connection. We left at 8:39 and continued heading east/south on the Alaska Highway to look for a boondocking spot.
We entered BC at 8:47. It was practically impossible to find a good boondocking spot in the dark!
We stopped at the Contact Creek Lodge at 9:35, where I wanted to gas up the RV, and we parked off to the side for the night.
We stopped at the Teslin Tlingit Heritage Center in Teslin at 11:47. They're open from 1:00 to 5:00 in September which was just fine because J only wanted to photograph the totem poles that were outside and she wasn't interested in paying the entrance fee to see the inside exhibits. We left at 12:21.
We went to the Yukon Motel in Teslin at 12:28 for an extended stop. First we filled up the RV with gas ($1.099/l), then filled up the RV fresh water tank and started some laundry. We dumped the gray and black tanks, then I had lunch in the RV while J went inside the restaurant to go online through their wireless internet connection. When I went to put the laundry in the driers, a woman said she had already put our stuff in a drier, and had put $0.50 in each drier because she had a lot of laundry to do. That was a first! Unfortunately, she had set both of the driers to Hot, and my mostly-synthetic clothes think "Hot" should be called "Melt," so I quickly took my stuff out of that drier and put it in a new dryer set to Low. I took my Mac into the restaurant and went online for a while before going back to keep an eye on the laundry. After the laundry was done and I had folded or hung the critical stuff, I went back into the restaurant to continue working online. Unfortunately, J said the net connection had gone down shortly after I had left. We returned to the RV and left at 2:39.
We entered BC (British Columbia) at 3:09 and I listened to an episode of Car Talk. We returned to the Yukon Territory at 3:56 and it started raining as we went under a dark layer of clouds. We went by Rancheria Falls at 4:12 and kept going because it was raining heavily. We stopped at 5:21 to consider photographing two grouse by the side of the road. We decided against it because the setting wasn't the best and we would have had to get on the other side of them for the light to be good.
We stopped at Wye Lake Park in Watson Lake at 5:54 where we planned to go online using J's Verizon USB stick and have dinner. We couldn't get online, so we left at 6:07.
We went to Campground Services at the east end of Watson Lake because I was able to get online using my Verizon USB stick back on July 14, 2009. J discovered an open wireless internet connection, so we used that instead. It was a nice fast, and free, connection. :)
We had dinner there at 6:55 of fajitas with the frozen leftover prime rib from dinner at The Homestead with Ken and Chris Day, and they were most tasty! :) (You may read about that dinner on my blog entry for September 12, 2009.) The fresh guacamole was also really good.
I did the dishes, then continued doing some computer work with the nice internet connection. We left at 8:39 and continued heading east/south on the Alaska Highway to look for a boondocking spot.
We entered BC at 8:47. It was practically impossible to find a good boondocking spot in the dark!
We stopped at the Contact Creek Lodge at 9:35, where I wanted to gas up the RV, and we parked off to the side for the night.