Our travel today took us thru Yukon Territories, British Columbia and back into Alaska. The sky was mostly cloudy but the clouds were high until we got into the mountains and onto the coast when they started dropping down and precipitating. So the supposedly spectacular scenery was hidden from us again. But until the clouds hid them, the mountains, although not really high, were very rugged with snow interspersed with all the green tundra and forests. There are lots of streams and rivers running from the glaciers down to the coastline and bogs, ponds and lakes holding some of the water inland. We saw several pairs of trumpeter swans, John saw one bear (I missed him), and an eagle flew past the front of the RV. We took a short hike to the Million Dollar Waterfall, don't ask us why that's the name.
When we reached Haines, we drove directly to the ferry terminal to check on going across the bay to Skagway. It is a 15 mile crossing that takes about an hour and costs more than the tank of gas it would take to drive back up the Haines Highway to the Alaska Highway. But we do get to see Skagway and drive a different route with different scenery, so we bought tickets for tomorrow's ferry which does not leave until 10PM. I did laundry, John washed the RV and we rented a movie to watch while it's raining!
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