Looking forward to the road once traveled

"On the road again, just can't wait for the permafrost again." Well, maybe it isn't quite like Willy Nelson's version, but today was the beginning of traveling back over the frost heaves and permafrost troubled highways. We started our days adventure at our campgrounds restaurant, with a wonderful breakfast, giving us the energy that we would need for the day. Two different types of forests were our early sights. Well drained soil and south-facing slopes support tall, dense forests. In contrast to cold wet flats, resulting in stunted bad crooked black spruce. They also get a fungus called witch's broom, where thick, ball- shaped tangles of spruce branches and needles clustered close to the trunk of the tree. We hope that Loni is enjoying some of these facts!
We met the Alcan Hwy at Tok. How Tok got its name is a mystery. A couple of views are that it rhymed with poke or it is short for Tokyo. It is a busy little town.



These are Mt Sanford, Mt Drum and Mt Wrangell. These are
in the 10 highest peaks in Alaska,

Not needing to stop for lunch, we continued to view three mountain peaks. Mount Drum in the middle, Mt. Sanford to the left, and Mt. Wrangell to the right. We made it to the Alaska border and thought it would be a good idea to take a farewell picture. Well, so did three other tour busses! We hurried to be the next group in line to get photographed, as Bill did the camera honors.
We have now made it through Canada's customs with little difficulty and on to our patchwork of good highway going bad with frost heaves, potholes, and pavement breaks. One would think we were at Cheyenne Frontier Days as contestants as we buck along the Alcan highway.
We end our day's journey at White River RV park which is 1168 on the historical mile markers. It 's 10:00 p.m. and it's still daylight!




We say goodbye to Alaska (note the tour busses in background)

Leigh - Marilyn
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