We made it to Watson Lake, Yukon today. The Alaska Highway will cross the BC - Yukon border 6 times before we are officially in Yukon tomorrow near Morley Lake which is about the halfway point to Whitehorse from here. Watson Lake is right on the border.
This is the location of the Sign Post Forest. When the AK Highway was being built, a lonely soldier posted a small sign with the distance to his hometown on the corned sign post and that was the beginning. Today there are over 72,000 signs on posts here (they actually count them every year) with the oldest there since 1956. We spotted ones from Bolivar, Centralia, Zell, Lee's Summit and Donophon to name a few from MO. (Who can tell me where Zell is??)
We spotted several wild Buffalo grazing along the road between Liard Hot Springs and Watson Lake. We even spotted another black bear. When we took off to explore Watson Lake on our bicycles, we were advised to make noise so we didn't startle any bears. They are waking up and hungry!
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