Yes, I have skipped many days to bring you to June 26! There is a reason for this jump, I have to tell the story before it gets too old.

Today, we hit the road at 6:33 AM leaving Whitehorse, Yukon. We drove a VERY long 342 miles to Dawson City, Yukon. To say the least today was a MEAN day of driving. We drove miles at 10 to 15 mph, not kmh. We started with light rain and not bad roads, around 100 miles we stopped for a much needed stretch break and get our yogurt parfait breakfast. Shortly after this break the roads deteriorated with frost heaves, while we thought those bad… Nope, they were not bad at all. Soon we found the roads deteriorated construction. When they do road construction, they rip out the entire road! Yes, the entire road!! Soon we are driving on gravel washboard. Next we had to wait for a pilot driver to guide us through a dirt track which you waited at least 15 minutes. During this time, I started communicating with Matt D. Matt & Nancy were going South on our route as we went North. They were sharing their road conditions.

We got out of the road construction and continued down the road with frost heaves, which cause dips in the road as well as pot holes. Today, we drove like DRUNKS down the roadway trying to avoid as much as possible. We came across more road construction that only got worse. How can it get worse? But it did, we also ran into others in our caravan group that experienced flat tires, bending of tow bars for their TOAD. TOAD is the vehicle you pull behind your motorhome. Some not only bent their tow bars but also bent their base plates on their TOAD and will require a new base plate. The base plate is what hooks to your car frame to allow you to pull a car flat on the ground with all four wheels spinning freely on the road as you drive.

Our our second construction, which required a pilot car, I was texting again with Matt D. They were in the pilot ground heading our way. We got to wave and say Hello as they passed us. Judi got a picture of them and their tin can and Nancy got a photo of us! We were in what is called Pelly Crossing.

At we got out of construction, we still had 130-ish miles to go, it was very slow going, the more you saw our group broken down, the slower you drove. Thank goodness, we arrived our campground without issues. We do however, have enough dirt on the motorhome and car to fill a sandbox or two. We joked several times about Tatanka taking a dust bath just like we were able to see in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

I will get you the past days sooner or later, stay tuned for more…