Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Cheri Aug-14-12
7:20 PM | 
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Sharp's Travels
The weather is clear this morning. Gay went to the post office to check on what time the mail plane would be in. She said to check back at 11:30am.
At 11am we had an early lunch and hooked up. The mail plane had landed but the mail hadn’t been brought up. She said she wouldn’t know if the package was in until she came back from lunch and had a chance to sort everything. Gay went over at 1pm and by 1:30 he was back with the package.
We hopped in the truck and crossed over the border into Stewart. We found the RV dump station. That job is done, “off we go”! It was 1:45pm.
I took more pictures of the beautiful waterfalls and Bear Glacier. We saw a bear in the ditch, as we came around a corner. There was no time for pictures. I was feeling bad about that, but after we got back on the Cassiar Highway, we spotted another one. He was right along the highway chomping down the flowers and grass. We were able to stop and get pictures. The bear didn’t even care we were there. He never looked at us, he just kept eating.
In 3 ½ hours we made it to mile 186. We stopped for ice cream at Tatogga Roadhouse. We found out she no longer carries ice cream. I was really looking forward to that! That was going to be our supper. Gay took time to wash the windshield and we hopped back in the truck, got a bar out for supper and we were off.
Not far up the road we hit loose gravel roads and some road side trimming. We were lucky enough to sail right through all the stopping points. At one point there was a lead car taking everyone through the construction area. We pulled up just as they were ready to go at our end. Were we ever lucky or what!
After leaving Dease Lake we stopped at Meek Lake mile 47. The water was like glass. You could see a mirror image of all the trees and mountains in the water. It was beautiful. Gay even climbed up on the 5th wheel to get a good picture.
Gay also did a little gold digging there. We got 2 pails full of dirt to sift through and see if we find any gold. That was about a half hour stop and then off we go again.
At mile 71 we pulled off at the Jade City Mine. Our group had a lunch break there. We were about 7 hours behind them. The Jade store was closed, but there were all kinds of mining artifacts, stone cutters and big Jade rocks all around. Gay got pictures of it all. They have a couple of mines they work that are close by.
We got a chance to talk to a young guy from Switzerland who works there. He and his girlfriend stopped in at the Jade Store 7 years ago and he found the whole operation fascinating. He began working there learning the trade. He is like one of their family now. He works there in the summer and goes home to Switzerland in the winter and brings lots of Jade items with him to sell.
We made it to Watson Lake around 11pm. We didn’t stop because it was too late to go into the campground, so we pushed on.
We continued up the Alaskan Highway another 72 miles to the Continental Divide. It was 12:30 when we pulled in there and put the bedroom slide out. It was time to crawl in and call it a night. It was a long day, 470 miles.
For pictures of the day click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Hyder to Teslin.
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