July 1 Watson Lake to Ft. Nelson

We were leaving Watson Lake this morning and about 30 miles down the road we saw 2 bear along side the road, they were just meandering along and eating grass! That was the high light of the day! We have seen 3 or 4 bear but couldn't get their pictures!
Today was a beautiful day here in the Northwest. The dark blue sky, abundance of sun and the back ground of the green trees made for a beautiful picture.
We saw many places along the road that were closed. Like nice gas stations, restaurants, I think what has happened through the years is the people driving the Alaskan Highway now are self contained in trailers and motor homes and do not use the motels and restaurants! We are one of them!
I took pictures of tall skinny trees on top of mountain ranges. They look so funny, I don't know why they look like that.
The Liard River is a big river, at one point there are some rapids, they are called Cranberry Rapids, thinking back when the Riverboats went down the river how did they manage to get around the rapids?
Driving along the highway there was a heard of bisons. We stopped at a turn out just a few yards from where they were, Carl and I walked back and took pictures of them. We stayed across the street, none of them tried to run after us thank goodness! That was fun. A ways down the road we saw more along the road.
We saw a quite a few stone sheep and their young. The young were really young. I can't believe they live very long, they lick the minerals along the road and the big trucks and cars just go so fast! They do scatter and run the other way!
Along the way we saw an astro van with a uhaul trailer. The car was burned to a crisp! The trailer wasn't hurt as we could see.
Today from Muncho Lake we had terrible roads. We just drove them a couple weeks ago. They were winding and hilly and rough! Funny thing we didn't remember how they were when we went through before.
Muncho Lake and Summit Lakes are beautiful. The scenery is awesome.
There is this place along the road called Toad River, it has a store, restaurant, gas , motel and RV campground. We had an afternoon treat, a soft serve ice cream cone. Only one flavor, vanilla. It broke up the afternoon.
We saw an area that had flat top mountains in the back ground. There were some places that seemed to be very remote.
All in all we had a fun day, especially seeing the bears!
Tomorrow is Dawson Creek. We will take off from there and go to Jasper, BC and end up in Banff. Everyone tells us this is a beautiful drive.
Oh yea, remember I told you we were going to go through the Cassier Mts.
We got gas in Watson Lake, I asked the old gentleman behind the counter what Cassier Mt Road was like? He said it was a bloody nightmare, he had just driven it yesterday. He had to haul some hay up the Cassier Mt. Road. Just a bloody nightmare, and ole Scotty from the RV park also said he wouldn't drive it! The old guy at the gas station said it would make the motor home shake a part. Well, we couldn't have that! Tonight here at this park we were talking to another lady, she said if we drove the Top of World, the Cassier is a piece of cake! Darn! Maybe next time.
We will leave Dawson Creek and go to Jasper....that is for sure.
Good night.