Watson Lake's main tourist attraction is the Sign Post Forest and when we had tried to go by there last night, we discovered that it was a forest of 3 foot deep snow. I don't know why we were surprised, this has been the story of our life, but we were not dressed for that so we decided to visit in the morning. So when we left our hotel, we were bundled in our snowpants and snowboots and equipped with our own sign to contribute to the Sign Post Forest.
There are over 71,000 signs here. The first one was nailed to a tree by an American GI with the distance to his home town in Indiana. Or Illinois. Or somewhere like that.
This is our sign! Our front license plate from Falcor with our names, dates and distances from Seattle to Watson Lake to Anchorage.
This bridge is the longest water span on the Alaskan Highway, but there was no water in sight when we crossed.
When we were back on the road, there was a sign for a photo attraction so we took the little road and this is what we saw... random.
In the afternoon we stopped in Whitehorse, which is the capitol of the Yukon Territory. This "city" is by far the largest city in the province with 25,000 of the total 35,000 people in the whole province. One of their attractions is the SS. Klondike pictured below. This is right before Cole tried to climb aboard and set off some crazy loud alarms, sending us running from the Royal Mounties.
We ended the day in Haines Junction which was BEAUTIFUL. Right at the base of the Kluane mountains and so close to Alaska that we could taste it. This picture was taken near Haines Junction.
Taken from the porch outside our hotel.
We ended the night hanging out in the Lounge of our hotel, chatting with locals, playing pool and some weird swinging string game.
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