day four | whitehorse to watson lake

Tim Horton’s was our choice for breakfast. Yummy breakfast sandwiches & sweet treats. Coffee was good but no sweetened lattes.

Today’s drive was a challenge with heavy rain and lots of camper & semi traffic. We also crossed lots of bridges.

We stopped in at Tetslin Lake & Tetslin Tlingit Heritage Centre. (Photos aren’t allowed inside.) Their culture is fascinating, especially the similarities of those Tlingit living in Alaska, as this first nation’s families are from Juneau and Sitka, Alaska.

There was also road construction. They used a traffic light as a flag person.

We decided to stay in Watson Lake due to weather. The Big Horn Hotel was full, the woman in front of us in line got the last room. We did get a room at Andrea’s Hotel, along with 10 friendly motor-bikers who were also trying to escape this rain. Once checked into the hotel, the sun came out.

We visited the sign post forest (over 90,000 signs) and walked along the boardwalk around Wye Lake.

It was a short travel day in distance, but not in time, 272 miles.