Sign Forest
More Signs ( 77,000 of them)
First nation ( remember we are in Canada) heritage center
Mushroom at the campground
A cookie cutter bridge on Alsaka highway
It is still Sunny and we are still in Yukon. We drove on Alaska Highway for about 300 miles. It is 1500 miles long and goes through mountains, lakes and small towns, nothing too exciting. But exciting part is how and why it was built. It started as an emergency project during the WWII to have road access to Alaska. ( a Strategic point nearest to Japan) . It was built just in nine months with 20,000 workers and 125 million dollars. It is said that USA started the project before even Canada approved it ( what if Canada does something like that to us??) . Now it is maintained by Canada.
We are staying at a campground at the junction of highway 37 and Alaska Highway near Watson Lake. The town is nothing much, 1500 people, a gas station , grocery store etc. But has this “ Sign Forest” a collection of over 70,000 signs ( mostly license plates from all over) . It is quite interesting. There is a father and son cafe at the campground and we ate there instead of cooking and it was one of the best Italian foods.
I have no internet and no BB reception. Feel isolated and lost. Hopefully I will have both tomorrow and you will get three blogs all at once. Till then good night and do not let the mosquitoes bite ( plenty of them here…downside of not rain) .
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