"Dawson Creek starts the Alaska Highway"

Today May 25, 2009 we stand at Mile Marker Zero where the Alaska Highway Begins. All traveling to Alaska want there picture taken here, we did. On June 2nd we drove from Fort Neilson to Muncho Lake and saw 2 black bear and 1 young moose just along the side of the road. These pictures of the water and the mountains where taken from inside our trailers back window looking out at Muncho Lake to the high Snow Mountain of British Columbia. On June 3rd, while on our way to Liard Hot Springs, we saw Stoney Mt. Sheep right out our truck window also Black Bear and Buffalo. As we walked to the hot springs we saw geese. The next day we were leaving the hot springs and a very large fire was just starting and we where one of the last trailers to go through . It was four days before the next trailer got through. We were so lucky. We saw more Buffalo, Horses, and Bear on the road on our way to Watson Lake. We got to the "Sign Post Forest" in Watson Lake on June 4th. This is where anybody from all over the world can put up their name or their city or state or country on cardboard, wood or metal then they put them on a upright post to show to the rest of the world that they where here. Next we visited city of Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory and viewed the beautiful Yukon River flowing through town. We saw the "Frantic Follies" in town, visited the restored Klondike paddle wheeler and traveled all around this city for 2 days. We went to a modern LDS log cabin church on Wayne's birthday. We ate in a tent covered restaurant that was filled with old memorabilia. We saw an old cargo Airplane balanced on a post. The plane tells the direction of the wind blowing and is known as a tetrahedron. We noticed it is pretty common in the north to mount airplanes on post to act as tetrahedens. Neat eh? Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon Territory. On June 8th we learned more about the riverboats and how they had to have 40 cords of wood a day to go up and down the river. On June 9th, I personally fell in love with the city of Dawson City, where gold was discovered and the town grew up almost overnight. Not to much has changed since then. It stills looks the same, dirt streets, wooden sidewalks and a lot of people walking around in period costumes. Dawson City was made famous for its gold . We learned how they Dredged for gold with huge gold dredges. We saw perma frost damaged buildings, Jack London Cabin and the famous poet Robert Frost home. Robert Frost wrote the great poem "Sam McGee". These two wrote stories about Dawson City and how the people lived. One day we drove up to the top of a mountain called the "Dome" that overlooks the city. What a view. That night we went to Diamond Tooth Gerties and saw young girls doing the dance hall Can-Can. We went to the Governor's Home the next day. It is really beautiful.