With
190 miles to drive today we didn’t hurry up get started. I made coffee and we got started on
that. Yesterday it rained quite a bit
and it rained a little during the night.
But this morning it was only cloudy.
I cleaned up the mess of mud I made on the steps and the throw rugs just
inside the coach and then started getting the outside of the coach ready to
travel. I had the sewer and grey water
connected so I drained those tanks and put away the hose. I also filled the fresh water tank; it was
down to ½ tank and tomorrow is dry camping.
Although I don’t normally like to carry a full tank of fresh water, when
I know we don’t have water at the next stop I like to fill the tank. No chance
of running out of water that way.
We
pulled out of the park at 10:00. I think
we were the last to leave. The drive today
was a repeat of yesterday, BC-97 all the way to the next RV Park.
Today
was a different story on wildlife sightings for us. We saw a small black bear,
followed by two
more black bears and then three black bears.
All those wildlife sightings were in the first 60 miles.
Stone Sheep |
We
made a stop at Testa River RV Park and Services. They have a restaurant renown for their
cinnamon buns. We bought two and split
one before leaving the parking area. The
other we saved for later.
We
saw stone sheep at mile 89. There were
several adults and several babies. Just
before arriving at the RV Park we saw a large number of bison on both sides of
the road.
We
had to stop across the road from the entrance to the camping area and unhook
the Jeep. During this stop I noticed
that antifreeze was dripping from the engine.
It looked like it was coming from the water pump. I had been keeping track of the engine
temperature through the hills and it had never overheated. I plan to make sure there is enough water in
the tank and make it on to either Whitehorse or Dawson City and find a Cummins
repair station and get it fixed.
Female Moose |
We had breakfast for dinner. Gerri used up the leftovers from Shepherd’s
and added eggs.
Male Moose |
Black Bear |
Bison |
After
smores Bob and Rebecca came to our coach and we talked for awhile, mostly about
grandchildren.
We
were dry camping so we were in the power conserving mode. I had turned off the outside refrigerator and
the DirecTV equipment. This far north we
don’t get a TV signal anyway. We did do some Sudoku before bed time. We were in bed by 10:30
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