Sunday Morning October 19th

Good morning all, we got up this morning in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory and hit the road. It’s currently snowing and windy. Mark say’s it smells wet, whatever that means.

Yesterday was a pretty cool day; I’ll leave it to the younger set to describe what happened. I will say that this is some spectacular country. As you drive along almost every turn and hill exposes another stunning, epic view. It’s almost like the earth’s bones are closer to the surface up here, you can see geology at work. When we drove around the end of a glacier coming down a valley right beside us yesterday just south of Tok, Alaska it almost seemed as if you could hear the earth groaning under the weight of all that ice.

I can understand the draw of this country for some people; it draws me to in some ways. The feeling you get from this place is sheer size and openness. It seems to me that this is what drew people west to explore the country in the first place; that sense of empty space just ahead makes you want to just keep going and going…