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| Not all campgrounds are scenic. Some, like this one, are basically just parking lots with hookups. Note the size of Little Moby next to a motor home. | Breakfast on the road. Yes, the nights were chilly, mostly in the 40s. Yes, we did have heat on in the camper for breakfast. Days, however, were in the 60s and 70s - not beach weather. But this is The North. |
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| Rinsing out the socks and undies was another evening entertainment in Little Moby. | The boys in the holstein hats were still at it when we returned to Tok, and we enjoyed the concert as much as we did before. |
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| The next afternoon, the wind changed, and blew smoke from wildfires into town. It went from sun to haze in half an hour. | The camera filters out a lot of the haze. It was very, very smoky. Trust me. |
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| When it got this bad (3:30 in the afternoon), we cancelled our reservation for the night and headed out of town while we could get out. We had heard of people stranded for days by wildfire smoke. | The smoke was much worse on the road than we anticipated. We thought by going southeast out of Alaska we would drive out of it. Not true.
There are mountains along this road. We can't see them. |
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| This sign says: "Firefighters and Fire Equipment Ahead. Caution!" | The eerie glowing sun followed us. |
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| After a brief few hours of sleep behind a gas station, we arrived the next day in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. On the way up the highway it had rained all the time we were in Whitehorse, so we didn't hang around long. On the way down, the sun shown on Whitehorse.This is Hi Country Campground, where we stayed about a week. | The McBride museum sports a very healthy sod roof. We spent an afternoon here. In fact, there were many excellent local museums that we enjoyed along the way on this trip. |
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| Here's a better look at the sod roof. | Robert Service is the poet of the North. One of his most popular poems is "The Cremation of Sam McGee." McBride musem has the cabin of Sam McGee, who was an actual person, though he never got cremated. |
