In the middle of somewhere

We've been having really great weather the last few days and more beautiful scenery. Right now we're in Watson Lake, Yukon; just over the border of British Columbia. It is a convenient town for a layover as the hotel is right across the street from this library and the laundromat a little further down. There are good-sized towns every 300 miles on the Alaska Highway and this is our 2nd stop, the first being Ft. Nelson. There seem to be stops(a gas-station) about every 40 miles, but you can never count on them being open or having gas. In between those 40 miles is absolutely nothing but rough road. Yesterday was particularlary exciting. We started out from a crumby commercial campground, rode through rolling forested mountains, got back into the canadian rockies, gave some New Zealand bikers some assistance, saw amazing mountain lakes, ate a picnic lunch at Muncho Lake, relaxed at Laird natural hot springs, saw several buffalo grazing, some rams, and a few female moose, and met an Iron Butt rider from Vancouver. John and I got to watch some World Cup today so we're satisfied.

*I've gone back to my previous post and added pictures