"It's Time to Say Goodbye"

Aug. 26th: Unfortunately, it was time to say goodbye to the beautiful state of Alaska and the wonderful town of Valdez, but we know it had to happen at some point. Honestly, Sean and I were dreading the Alaska Highway section after the US Border crossing and up until the Burwash Landing, Yukon area. That stretch of road is TERRIBLE! This would be our 4th trek across it as well.

On the way to Beaver Creek, Yukon, we stopped before Glenallen, AK to check out a mountain range that we previously had passed and had no idea was there due to low cloud cover. The sight was impressive.

We stopped in Tok, AK to top-off the motorhome because we didn't feel like paying the sky-high price for diesel in Beaver Creek, Yukon.

We enjoyed the paved roads for as long as we had them. Then, after we passed the US Border crossing, this is all you see for 20 miles or so...very slow miles...

Beaver Creek was a stopping for the night destination and once there the motorhome will finally be able to say that it drove the Alaska Highway and survived! And, then I formally presented Sean with a classy sticker saying so, haha!

The next morning (which was kind of cold), we headed out early to get to Whitehorse, Yukon ASAP and be done with the horrible stretch of road. Although, the road can be terrible, at least the scenery is beautiful.

 Brian and Patti kindly gave us their address so we had a free place to stay the night while we are here. They have a beautiful home and spacious yards with 2 greenhouses and multiple garden patches. Wow!

Thank goodness you guys gave us permission to raid the garden, otherwise, there would have been drool-marks running down the greenhouse windows...and not from Molly, haha! Btw, Patti never told us she and Brian have award winning veggies, but you can see how they got those awards in my bounty-collecting bag!

We encountered a problem with our bedroom slide. When Sean would press the button to roll the slide out, the bed wasn't moving...this perplexed us for a moment until we realized the bed was detached from the slide! We think the Yukon must hate us because every time we try to travel through this area, something breaks.

We got everything fixed up after a while trying to figure out how to get to the brace that failed. But, this made up for anything and everything that happened to us while in the Yukon...