I didn’t make very good time on the Cassiar because of rough roads. Now that I am on the Alaska Highway (also called the Alcan), it’s not much better. There are many construction areas, causing delays of 30 minutes to an hour. 6 1/2 hours became more like 8. Especially with restroom breaks and picture stops. But this is not a race and I have no real schedule, so no worries!
Construction zones involve waiting till a pilot car can guide the line of vehicles through a spot where they are working:
I left early in the morning and arrived before dark at the Caribou RV Park, https://www.caribou-rv-park.com/ which is 22 miles east of Whitehorse. I wish I had picked a place closer to town, but the setting was more woodsy and quiet. The ones I saw later closer to town would’ve been like parking lots and noisy.
Rest-stop beauties:
Marsh Lake and Dam:
I got in early in the afternoon, so had time enough to drive into Whitehorse, get an oil change and shopped for more groceries. [Just as my nephew predicted, I was in the middle of the Yukon when I needed another oil change!]
There is a restaurant next door called the Wolfs Den. http://www.wolfsden.ca/ While eating supper on the outside deck there, a fox walked right up!
Kinda hard to tell, but the fox is right in the middle to the right of the vehicles. I wish I had gotten a better picture. So I’ll borrow a pic from the internet. He looked like this:
