On our way to meet Jiggs and Cynthia

We are now at the border crossing and have taken the wrong Lane.  We are in the truckers Lane.  The inspector laughed and told us to go on through, turn around and go through American Customs and then come back through the Canadian customs.   So we had to go through the drill twice.  Our Freezer of meat is still with us.  We are now on our way to Cache Creek to meet up with Jiggs and Cynthia.

 It was so exciting to pull into the campground at Cache creek and see Cynthia and Jiggs because now we know we are really doing this trip to Alaska.  Cynthia had dinner ready for us and we discussed the next couple days travel.  We headed out the next morning and stopped at Williams Lake the first day and traveled to Prince George the following day on the Caribou highway. The scenery is so beautiful we stop for pictures of the view quite often.   We are now headed up the yellowhead highway to camp at Meziadin.  We arrived at the provincial park early and drove in one vehicle to Stewart and Hyder.  Talk about scenery, mountains, waterfalls, glaciers, and lots of wild life.  It was a beautiful clear day and we saw 17 bears, a Moose and a few mountain goats along the route.   I think we stopped and took a picture of every bear.  Hyder boomed with the discovery of silver in 1917-18.  It now has a population of 79 in the winter and 200 in the summer.  Not much to see in Hyder or Stewart but the drive their was worth it.  On our way back from Hyder we had to go through customs again and made it with no problem. 

                               Love this Bear picture.

We are now traveling up the Cassiar highway to Watson Lake, Home of the Sign Post Forest. On our way we saw a black bear with her new born cubs along the highway.  It was such an awesome sight.  Something I will probably never see again.  We are now at Watson Lake and the sign post forest is HUGE. I can't believe how many signs and posts are in this forest.  Some people hang there shoes, toasters and anything to mark that they had been their.  I am so excited to be hanging our sign with all the others.  Ours will be number 74,079.  The sign post forest was started in 1942 by a homesick U.S. Army G.I.  from Danville, Il while working on the Alaska Highway.  He erected a sign here pointing the way home and stating the mileage to his hometown.