...stuck in the Yukon

The Hufford girls enter the Yukon!

Emily posing next to the boundary marker.

Laura sits on a bench that straddles the Alaska and Yukon border.  Her right side is in Alaska and her left side is in the Yukon.

Look closely and you can see a narrow swath cut through the trees in the center of this photo.  It is the Alaska/Yukon border which they keep cleared for the length of the border.

Welcome to Canada!

Yes, we are stuck in the Yukon.  Mudslides have closed the Alaska Highway reportedly for the next five days.  Presently we are camping on the shores of Kluane Lake near Destruction Bay.  It's a beautiful place with rugged mountains on one side and the beautifully huge Kluane Lake on the other.  So, we're good, but delayed.

Tomorrow we will go to Whitehorse and monitor the situation from there.  Then if the highway opens earlier than expected we will be poised to go.  We also have to check in with the Ford dealer as the 'check engine' light came on this afternoon as we were driving through the frost heaves between Beaver Creek and Destruction Bay.  You can only imagine how happy I was about that after the pounding I was taking driving through the frost heaves.  And the frost heaves were gnarly.  At times I had to slow to 20 miles-an-hour in order to save the rig from being jostled off the road.  It's supposed to be better from here on out.

We should have plenty of access to the Internet in Whitehorse, so I will try to post from there.  Until then, we remain...stuck in the Yukon.