Yukon road trip

Just back from a short road trip to Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon (territory/province?). I sort of forgot how close Canadian Tire and a movie theatre (it's Canada, ya know) is to Haines. At least close in the summer months, the road is passable but scary in the winter. It took me about 5 hours to get there even with miles and miles of slushy snow falling.

Part of the trip was to meet up with my sister and part of her family at Takhini hotsprings. 2 days of bobbing around in a swimming pool full of hot water...very nice. Weekend camping during the warm months in Canada is, however, not peaceful, not nice. I forget how inconsiderate people are and how just plain LOUD campgrounds are on the weekends. Friday night it was drunken teenagers with fireworks. If you looked at the Wikipedia article, you'll note that the area is essentially an arctic desert...fire danger levels high all summer. Saturday night it was a site right next to ours that included the thundering feet of small children running laps around our site as well as an unending supply of modern country "music". Must remember not to camp on the weekend at Takhini, no matter how nice the water is it can't make up for noisy sonsabitches.

The other part of the trip was the visit to the city...specifically Canadian Tire to buy a reel mower for my grassy grass. I'm pretty sure the gasoline powered neighbors wonder what the hell I'm up to with my push mower in the summer and my hand operated shovels in the winter. Bob cat dude did come over and cut down the forest of dandelions in my front yard while I was push mowing my way through the side yard. But, ya know...the first mowing of the forest was going to be seriously hard work, I appreciate the help summer or winter!

On the drive back, I saw a black phase red fox. Very cool animal, all charcoal black except for a white tip on it's fluffy tail.