Again, it was a rainy day but I gave Bruce a break and drove the entire 270 miles. At times, when we could see anything, the countryside was beautiful, but most of the time, we gave the camera a break. Unfortunately when we arrived in Whitehorse, our Tail Gunner caught up w/us and told Ron, the 3rd RVer in our group, that his vehicle was really swaying and perhaps they should unhook it and drive it to Skagway separately. In deciding what to do, we found an RV repair and by the luck of the Irish, they had a tow hitch that fit his unit. Easy enough, we thought unhook the old one, put on the new one and we are off and running - NOT!!! It took nearly an hour to get the hitch off as it was bent. To make a long story short, Bruce found a way by doing some drilling etc. installed the new one and we were off and running again.
This beautiful lake, wish you could see the color, is called Emerald Lake, and it is just that - as green as you could make it especially around the edges. My little camera doesn't do it justice but we'll remember it for a very long time. Maybe I can find a postcard.
From, there, we went through Carcross and found the smallest desert in the world. That is sand you are looking at - not snow. If we had time, we would have taken a walk but since we were running late, we took a couple pictures and were on our way again.
We have been crossing the borders several times but here we are again, back in the Good Ol' USA. As you can see, the fog started setting in. The area around this part of our trip looked like it would have been fabulous but since our vision was a bit to be desired, we missed a lot of it. As we got to the top of the White Pass Summit and started working our way down - ll% downgrade, we hit The Fog. OMG!!! I could hardly see 50' ahead of us. Thank goodness a "white" buss had his flasher's on or else I wouldn't have seen him until I practically hit him. Plus he was on a bridge. A little white knuckle for me but going 20 MPH made it more doable.
Then the traffic stopped, we knew we were near US Customs but had no idea how long we would be waiting. We found out that it was quite a while because all the busses going back to Skagway w/cruise ship passengers were ahead of us and all their passports have to be checked. Oh boy, happy hour was sounding better and better if we ever get down this mountain and, of course, we did.
After getting settled in at the RV park, we took a ride downtown for dinner and saw a couple cruise ships leaving the docks.
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