Hello everybody   ---

This continues our trip home from Alaska.  This will be day two and day three.  I tried to do day two on day two but the internet connection was too slow.  If I would have done it yesterday it would have continued into today before I finished.  

Yesterday we started at Destruction Bay and stopped at Teslin, both along the Alaska Highway.  This evening we are at Iskut, on the Cassiar Highway.

Yesterday we passed through Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.  The Yukon River goes through there.  From there it goes north then curves around north of Fairbanks and empties into the Bering Sea.  It is a very long river.  The Chena (across from our apartment in Fairbanks) empties into the Tanana River at the southwest of Fairbanks and it empties into the Yukon about 100 miles west of Fairbanks.  The Yukon becomes a very large river.  This is how it looks in Whitehorse.

At Whitehorse there is a dam (second below) so there has to be a fish ladder.  The salmon have traveled over 1000 miles from the ocean before they arrive in Whitehorse.  They cannot go up the dam so they have this ladder for them to continue up stream to spawn.  When we were there there were some salmon there ready to go up the ladder but were waiting until --- no one knows what they wait for.  The female salmon lays about 4000 eggs and if everything goes well two or three of those fish will return spawn.

Want to decorate your front yard?  Here is an idea for you direct from Whitehorse!  This is hundreds of bicycle wheels taped or tied together.  There was also a smaller one behind this one.

This is the town monument in Haines Junction.

Totem pole in Whitehorse

 And some smaller ones in Teslin.

Better weather today.  It did not rain much and there was a lot of blue sky.  Here is a low-hanging remnant of rain clouds.



Today we saw interesting designs on trees burned a few years ago.


There was a black bear just off the road, not more that 20 feet from the van.  It was very content to eat whatever he found there and paid no attention to us.

There continues to be many lovely flowers along the road.  This is a closeup of fire weed.

 The orange-colored flower is new to us.  Here it is beside a white flower we have seen all along the way from Fairbanks and fire weed.

 We don't know what this is either.  Seed puffs that look about like dandelions but they seem to stay attached long term and the plants form in circles or at least close groups.



And there are still beautiful mountains.

 Some with sharp peaks.

 Some with glaciers

Many bubbling brooks, far too many to stop and see very many.

This concludes day three.  So far so good.  God has given us a wonderful creation.  Let us each help make creation still more wonderful.

Thanks you  very much.

Larry and Elva