Milkshakes and Mountains..

We leave Watson Lake riding towards Haines Junction..I don't know what to except today as the travelling is starting to get to a few of the lads on the trip!

The weather has been kind to us with temperatures in the mid 60's in the mornings.. It gets hot at around 3 o'clock and its noticeable the extra effort required to keep concentration..as the roads are long and monotonous!

its a real bonus pulling in at one of the roadside diners for an ice cream or milkshake..we have just completed 260 miles in the morning and we have arrived at our mid day stop in the town of Whitehorse the capital of the Yukon....

We have dinner and suitably refreshed head into Whitehorse Town centre for a scan round..

We take a wrong turn and end up on the towns airstrip as a Dc 3 comes into land!! I must remember  two things!

1. to drive on the right hand side of the road..

                            2. Take my ear phones out so I can hear the traffic around me..

Not really...Only 'aving you on....

We decided to visit the transport museum after seeing the Dc3 long the roadside! stretching my budget I part with $4 for entry...

The Yukon community have an interesting outlook on life..what with the hard ships of winter up here it makes you wonder how they coped in the past travelling between trading posts and other cities and towns..

They took a liking to transport by plane in the pioneer days of aircraft..Only problem was they weren't    

particularly good at it! Its seems the exhibits were only replica's!! 

A plane called Suzy.....

A silver one..and very nice it was.. only the pilot was deaded on its second flight...

A piste bully for grooming ski slopes!

Back outside..

Some arty farty type.. with plenty of time and not a lot of imagination covered their pickup with knitted blankets..

Say no more...!

After filled our boots with some transportation nostalgia 

we head for the town centre and the famous SS Klondike..

Nope never heard of it! 

 The Weather was hot and sunny so we push back on for Haines Junction. 

The travelling today had been mundane not really boring but nothing to say I enjoyed that ride..

But....

150 miles to go and that all changed for the better right into Haines Junction and our stop for the night

 

We enjoy a celebratory beer and early to bed for the next and biggest leg of the trip yet...500 miles to Fairbanks we going back into America tomorrow..