8th August. Sign Post Forest - Watson Lake - Yukon

We both woke up exhausted this morning.......we had programmed ourselves to wake up every few minutes to check for the northern lights, even though it was overcast and drizzeling rain. No auroras. But it was beautifully quiet in the pull off and we had a magnificant view of a big wide river and beautiful mountains. There was a little wooden 'outhouse' stuck between the trees where no one had seen it for a while. The spiders took up residence there in a serious way and we stayed well clear of it - made for a cute picture though. We wondered how come so many mosquitoes got inside last night - and then this morning discovered that a roll of toilet paper had got caught in the pull out, leaving a pretty good "mozzie gap" - no wonder it got cool too.... ah well, so one learns. I uploaded a good few pictures tonight. They are now hosted by yahoo - but can easily be seen from the roadrunnersusa website on the tab - "photos from the road" under different albums. We trundled slowly up the Alcan today into Watson Lake - home of the Sign Post Forest and much more. It has grown SO much since we were last here and there were a good few people wandering around trying to find their signs from previous visits. I wrote all the names that are on the sides of the motor home on the RoadrunnersUSA sign that Billy T and Tom had made for us to hang here, so you are all now in the Sign Post Forest too! If any of you ever get here - the signs are up near the big parking lot towards the little huts - away from the main road. You will see what I mean when you get here - good luck in finding them! We also wrote Billy T, Tom, Pat and Savannah's name on their sign and the PenniesforCancer flag had Penny's family and us all sign it........ so we really do have a good presence in this particular forest. We hung them high enough so none of you will get covered with snow either! Kind, hey? :-) There are photos on the site of this too. We did walk around the Forest a little bit - but each time it started to rain. Tomorrow will hopefully be good and clear and we can take yet more photos....... I am sure there is a road sign, tag, city limits sign, etc. from every place here - its stupendous and will take hours to look through them all... but it is truely fascinating and many folk wander around with their mouths hanging open in wonder. While waiting for the rain to pass, we went to the Northern Lights Centre and watched a fascinating show on the universe and Aurora Borealis - the screen is a humongous rounded roof screen and the chairs all have one almost lying flat down. It was totally wonderful. I have to say, though, that no camera really does not the northern lights any justice at all........the real thing is way better than any of the photos we have seen here so far - and definately way better than mine that were not even taken with a tripod! Next time..........please may there be a next time! We bought some Chinese food for supper and are now taking it easy (as if we had been working hard before!). It stays light here till around 11.30pm and gets light at some unfair hour of the morning. I wake up and its light and have no idea how early it is. If I smell coffee, then its around 7am. If all is quiet I can go back to sleep without any problem. When we arrived at the campground this morning there was this crazy little tent on a trailer sitting outside and a British lady in the store. She was just about to leave, but I had to ask her what she was up to. Her website is Rosiearoundtheworld.co.uk. She is going around the world on foot and pulls this tent contraption that is totally cute! She must have had amazing adventures so far and I cannot wait to get to read about it! Ok - I am off to bed for the night - maybe the skies will clear and we will have another light show - always hopeful. Our cell phones are dead as doornails and it will be a good few days before they pick up signal again. We are due to leave here on Thursday morning again, heading for Whitehorse further up in the Yukon. It really is stunning scenery here and we both feel extremely fortunate to be doing a journey of this nature again. We had more people ask us about 'the rental unit' but one guy came up to us while Frank was nailing the signs in at the Sign Post Forest and asked us what the story was. He was very sweet and interested. Steven, please tell Lisa that I am thinking of her and will call her as soon as we get a signal, and if Joleen calls, tell her the same. You doing ok? I miss you guys and Frank wants to know how Alyeska (Alley) is doing? It will be a day or three, but I will call you when we can........ My need for a "kid fix" is getting strong........ Love and Light to you all Especially U3 Annie & Frank XXXXXXXxxxx www.RoadrunnersUSA.com www.livingwithcml.blogspot.com www.PenniesforCancer.com