Today was the day of animals, and they were even live animals today.  Yesterday we saw some road kill but today they were up and walking around.  First we saw a caribou.  It was at the side of the road.  We were going slowly and it ran alongside the van, not more than ten feet away.  We read that reindeer are domesticated caribou.  We could not decide whether this one was Donner or Blitzen but it ran quite fast.

We also saw a family of goats or sheep.  We are not sure which or what variety they might have been.  They were right at the roadside and appeared to lick some minerals along the side of the road.

Next we saw a herd of buffalo.  We just saw one first walking along the side of the road.  Then we saw perhaps 30 or so mostly resting.

Lastly we saw a black bear.  It was about 15 feet from the road.  It raised up, saw us coming, and turned to run back into the trees.  It is much more exciting seeing live animals than road kill.  (Sorry, no picture of the bear.)

Today was also the day for road construction.  Some places they were patching sections 20 to 100 feet long.  Other places they were patching sections several miles long.  The problem was waiting for the pilot car.  A couple times we probably waited 15 minutes.  At least that did provide the opportunity to step out of the van and get into a position other than sitting upright in the seat.  Our van is so fully packed that we are unable to recline the seats or move them forward or backward.  So there we sit in one position until we stop.  We can reposition our feet a bit but that is about all.

We have been in the Canadian Rockies again today.  Most of the individual mountains are covered with trees.  There were some today that were bald.  They must be solid rock leaving the vegetation no place to grow.  The mountains are very pretty and very numerous.  There have been hundreds of miles of mountains so far.

We are stopped for the night (Thursday, 8/8/13) in Teslin, Yukon Territory.  Teslin is on highway 1 along the south border of Yukon.  Our path took us into and out of Yukon and British Columbia several times.  We hope to arrive in Fairbanks early afternoon Saturday.