We didn’t ever establish a method of telling you who was writing, is this a mistake we should fix now? No. You just have to guess! This morning, after another soak in the hot springs, and what we hope is the last time we have to ready the trailer for traveling, we take to the road. This road is the site of the largest construction zone and stop we have encountered on our entire trip. Isn’t it funny that it happens on our very last day on the road? Almost half an hour wait and then about 15 kilometres of dodging monster dump trucks, packing trucks, graders, and various other machinery too bizarre to name.
And the weather forecast is often wrong, but not today, they called for snow and guess what it is doing … snowing. I could exaggerate and say it was a blizzard, but I won’t, it is just coming down in a steady all day type of fall. The road is not in nice driving shape, so Lawrie is taking it easy at about 60 to 80 km an hour. A few hills get the four wheel drive treatment and finally at noon we arrive in Watson Lake. We make a lousy choice for lunch … they still let people smoke in this restaurant! Yuck! However they do have a unique forest.
Shortly after Watson Lake is the turn down the Stewart Cassiar Highway. This is the highway we took when we started our trip. That means we have just completed a circle inside Canada, travelling mostly south on the way east and mostly north on our way west and now on the last day making the connection and closing the loop. The snow fall gets lighter and lighter, until we get to Teslin where it quits completely and the sun shines. We stop for gas as we have been running on fumes for the past while. Unless something goes terribly wrong with the fuel system, this should be our last fill up and we will have managed to never run out of gas. This is another good thing! And while we are counting our blessings, we haven’t had a single flat tire, nor any mechanical malfunction that has left us stuck anywhere. More good things!
The scenery is wonderful on this highway, but as we travel towards home the feelings are mixed. We are looking forward to being home, but are very sad that the time exploring Canada has come to an end. In the gathering dusk, at the end of a very long day, we arrive at home, happy and sad at the same time.
Very interesting!!!