Another anniversary, road days and wild animals

From one anniversary to another, we remotely celebrated Mom & Dad Thomas' 78th anniversary! What an accomplishment and an amazing legacy of love we have on both sides of the family. We are so very blessed!

We are "back on the road" again if you are willing to call these roads! Apparently there is no "good" way to get to Alaska. The Alcan was almost as bad as the Top of the World Highway. The roads must always be under construction in one form or another since the winter brings frost, then spring it heaves & summer they work on it. 

 

 

The exciting thing about traveling through the wilderness is that you do get to see lots of wild life. Hard to take pictures while you're driving but did at least catch this Caribou before it went into the woods. 

Our boondock stop for the night was right on Destruction Bay, such a lovely view from Phoebe. Even though it was a little rainy we got out and did some rock hounding. As you can see it was a great place for it!

 

We hit Whitehorse again and loved the Eclipse Hot Springs so much we modified our route so we could go back and spend another day relaxing there. No phones allowed in but I did get this one shot from the cafe area. It's quite lovely!

From one hot springs to the next, we traveled to Liard River Hot Springs which were quite a bit different. For one thing you had to walk for about a half a mile on a boardwalk to get back to the springs. A much more "natural" site this was truly just a pond that they built a deck and stairs down to the springs. The water was super hot (120 degrees) at one end where it flowed out and got progressively cooler the further away you got.

Back on the road again and more incredible scenery. That is one thing for sure about this trip is that the sites have just been spectacular. And wow, did we see wildlife along this stretch.

 

We saw bears, antelope, caribou and buffalo all from the comfort of our RV. It was amazing!

Once the roads got better it made for such an enjoyable trip. The views continue to amaze and we wish we could stop at each and every one of these lakes and put the kayaks in. This was Mucho lake and it was smooth as glass making a perfect mirror to double the gorgeous view. 

It really is a "MUCHO" lake as it seemed to keep going and going and going...

Our next stop was in Dawson Creek, which is the beginning of the Alcan (Alaska Canadian Highway), Mile 0. Our campground had a museum right next door and it reminded me a bit of Greenfield Village with all it's buildings and replicas. Does this Hoosier cabinet look familiar to anyone?😃

 

No pretty stained glass windows here, but an old church that has been moved 4 times!

Dave was so happy looking at all the old wood working tools and machinery. 

He thought Dad would like this old Ford firetruck. 😀

 

They even had a whole building commemorating the building of the Alcan. It truly was quite a feat to build 1387 miles of highway in just over 8 months...in 1942! And we drove all of it!

We continued playing tourist and went to the Mile O post which happens to be right in the middle of the intersection! Good thing traffic was light and we could walk up and get a picture. 

Back on the road again as we head for Jasper and Banff National Parks. Stay tuned for more beautiful pictures to come!