Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

We left Watson Lake at 7:15 Am. We visited the Watson Lake Sign Post Forest on our way out of town. There are many thousands of signs left by people with their names and the town they come from. The town has added more posts, making room for more signs.

We drove through the Little Rancheria Valley. There were many beautiful viewpoints. Next we stopped in Teslin. We went to the George Johnston Museum. George was a Tlingit Indian. His parents brought him up from Juneau to Teslin as an infant in a papoose. As a child he ordered a camera and developing kit and became quite an accomplished photographer. He bought a 1928 Chevy 4 Door Sedan and had it brought up the river to Teslin. There wasn’t a single road in the town. He had carved 3 miles of road and used the vehicle as a taxi. In the winter when the lake froze he drove his taxi on the lake. He returned the Chevy, without a single dent in it, in the 1950’s in trade for a pickup truck. The Chevy dealership restored his Sedan and later donated it to the museum. There was a very informative movie at the museum of the effects that bringing the Alaskan Highway through the area had on the Indian People.

From there we headed to Whitehorse, YT. To be this far North in the Yukon Territory is just amazing to us. We will be spending two nights here so we can see the sights in Whitehorse tomorrow before heading to Dawson City early on Saturday morning.