A 16$ Delissio Pizza and a herd of Bison

We are officially in the Yukon! I have been curious about this place ever since I started colouring it in on my grade school geography maps. And now I'm finally here. It is seriously remote. Tonight we are staying in Watson Lake, which is apparently home to 1547 people and the third largest city in the entire Yukon. The drive here today (from mile 300 on the Alaskan Highway to mile 635) was incredible. We saw giant bison, wild mountain goats, bears, bighorn sheep, caribou, and even some horses walking along the highway, alone. The horses were strange, but everything else was mind-blowing. It was like being on a Northern Safari. (Found out later that it is actually called the 'Serengeti of North America'). Andy dropped the lens cap to the camera while he was leaning out the window taking a picture of the bighorn sheep, so he had to get out and face them down in order to get it. Luckily he didn't get rammed. We stopped at another small town on the way through northern B.C. that was called Toad River. Toad River has a population of 60 and we spent some time playing at their school playground (a school that was encased in a double-wide). The neat thing that Toad River is known for is their HAT collection. They have 4580 hats nailed to the roof of their restaurant/bakery/gas station/only store in town. The hats represent each mile from the Yukon to the continental U.S. Very cool.

We also stopped at Liard Provincial Park to go in their natural hot springs. Some were too hot for our wussy skin, but some were quite nice.

When we finally arrived in Watson Lake we headed to the grocery store, only to discover that it closed. We had to grocery shop at the local gas station, and I paid 16.44$ for a Delissio Pizza. I just about keeled over. For those who don't know me well, I am a big coupon/price-matching kind of person, and I don't ever pay more than 3 or 4$ for a frozen pizza.

We are officially in the North. I was thinking today, "you know you are far from home when you only see ONE Ontario license plate the entire day."