TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO SKAGWAY

After that 8-mile climb yesterday we woke up to sore muscles and needed to stretch out a bit.  We enjoyed our visit to Skagway but the time had come to get a move on.  We made plans to meet our new friends, Jean and Maria, at Carcross for lunch.  Without phone service and shaky internet it was difficult to communicate but we bumped into each other at the Carcross visitor’s center and drove to Caribou Crossing Trading Post’s café for a bite to eat.  We got to know each other better and made plans to meet tomorrow morning at a turnout with a beautiful lake view.  Then we were all going to take the car 60 miles down to Atlin, BC for a day trip.  That was a plan but….

Second visit to Carcross

Second visit to Caribou Crossing but this time with new friends

They went back to Whitehorse for the night and we needed to empty our holding tanks, fuel up and fill our fresh water tank.  We left Carcross and headed down Tagish Road, which by the way, is a beautiful scenic route.  We had no problem gassing up and emptying our tanks but we couldn’t find water so we kept driving and driving, going 120 miles, all the way into Teslin.  Unfortunately, that put us way past where we were supposed to meet Jean and Marie.

So our plans changed again.  Jean and Marie are still going to Atlin for the day but we’re going to spend a night or two here at Lakeshore RV Park in Teslin.  We haven’t had full hookups in a while and this is a good opportunity to catch up on some laundry.  I’m hoping the lake is calm tomorrow because I’d like to take the kayak out and give our hiking legs a break.

Jean and Marie talked us into taking the Cassiar Highway to Hyder, AK and Steward, BC which is something we wanted to do but got talked out of because of Terry and Sharon’s experience on the Cassiar. The Cassier is a 450-mile scenic route with outstanding scenery and good wildlife viewing. However, the highway is narrower than most 2-lane highways with little or no shoulder and 2-5 foot dropoffs.  The roads are paved and in good  to excellent condition with an occasional gravel break or rough patches.  There is no passing and no center line on the northern half of the highway.  Now, doesn’t that sound like a piece of cake?  After driving the top of the world from Dawson City to Chicken  and onto Tok, I mean, how bad can it really be?

That's all folks!  Thanks for stopping in.