WEDNESDAY July 11, 2007

We visited the sign forest today in Watson Lake near the BC and Yukon territory border. It started out with a single sign posted by a soldier during the construction of the highway (mileage to his home) and has turned into tens of thousands of signs. Visitors are welcome to post their own signs now.

We made a late decision to detour to Skagway today. Long day, but tomorrow will be a good break for everyone on the Skagway to Whitehorse train. About a 3 hr round trip. It put us in Alaska a day early, but we will have to make our way back out to the AK hwy and then on to Fairbanks later in the week. Raining and cold right now with lots of snow in the hills around Skagway. All fogged in. This would be pretty depressing if this were a typical mid-July day.

Off to bed; early to rise......

Welcome to Banff & The Canadian Rockies

FRIDAY July 6th, 2007
We took the kids swimming in the hot springs pool above the town of Banff – mostly an adult adventure that held little interest for the kids. A waste of cash there. No A/C needed tonite; we arrived to temps around 80 opened the windows and had a nice breeze high on the hill. We were put to sleep by the pitter pat of rain on our fiberglass housing, but woke to a cool dry morning. We had an awesome campsite with incredible views – yours for the reasonable price of $40 / nite. A bit pricey given the Canadian dollar has recovered and is now virtually on par with the greenback.
The kids have entertained themselves with their Gameboys, reading assignments for next year’s school work, and playing cards – primarily “War”. It is called that for a reason as everyone in the campground knew where we were playing cards.