From Carcross, we drove to the Watson Lake area, spending the night in Nugget City. Dinner was in the Wolf It Down restaurant next to the RV Park. The cook was a real character! Very gruff and rough-and-ready. When Pat ordered a beer, he complained that it was all the way over on the other side of the dining room in a cooler. Pat said he would get it and off the cook went. The next table ordered a beer also and when the cook brought it, he pulled out his sh...

Leaving Dease Lake, we continued up Hwy 37 until we crossed the border into Yukon. The last 30 km or so, we were driving through hectares of burnt trees - apparently from a couple of fires in the past few years. What a sight - nothing but bare, scorched trunks. Once into Yukon, we headed east on the Alaska Hwy to Watson Lake where we spent two nights. A must-see here is the signpost forest - a massive display of over 80,000 signs that folks post when they v...