Thursday June 24 We made it to the Yukon

Today we didn't drive very far, only 69 miles. We stopped in Watson Lake, Yukon and just stayed. We went to the visitors center where we got all their secrets. Lots of information both written and verbal. There we watched a short movie about the Alcan and looked at their exhibits.
We then did the Sign Post Forest with well over 10,000 signs. For those of you who don't know the story I'll give you a summary. In 1942 a homesick GI named Carl Lindley put up a sign pointing the way and mileage to his hometown of Danville, Il. Others followed his lead and in 1990 the 10,000th sign was added. They maintain this and are still adding signs. You can't read them all.
We went shopping in a variety store named Houegen's where they had a little of everything. Then we came back worked on the blog, emails, and grilled some steaks.
Yesterday before we stopped for the night we were getting low on gas, below 1/2 tank. Gas stations are a long ways apart up here. I pulled into a small station at Liard Hot springs and it was $1.49 a liter which is $5.64 a gallon American. I pulled off and said I would run out before I paid that much. Luckily today I ran across another station that had it for $1.06 per liter which is $4.12 per gallon. This is about the going rate in this part of the world. Yesterday's mileage was 7.93 miles per gallon which is not bad crossing the mountains. We are about 600 miles from Fairbanks Alaska. In less than two tanks fulls we will be back in the US.
Tonight we sprang for the $21 campground in town. This gave us wifi and a place dump of both tanks, electricity to charge everything, and a fill up with water. No phone service here. It rained a little today but then the sun came out. The temperatures have been in the 50's at night and 70's in the day time. Pretty nice overall.
Tomorrow we head for Whitehorse and turn north toward Dawson City, the heart of the Klondike Gold Rush. From there it is over the Top of the World Highway and into Alaska. We may just spend the 4th of July in Chicken or Eagle Alaska. That should be a hoot in these small towns.
I put up a ton of pictures today so you will have to go through several pages to see them all. Be patient they are slow loading but I hope worth the wait.