Baby Nugget RV Park–Junction 37

Day 76 – Tuesday, August 27

We bought a license plate to commemorate our trip to Alaska—we thought this was pretty appropriate!

 

Today we arrived at the Junction of the  Alaska Highway with the Cassiar Highway, and will stay tonight at the Baby Nugget RV Park.  This is just west of Watson Lake, where we visited the signpost forest and left our sign on July 20—more than 30 days ago!  It was a short 2 1/2 hour drive here today from Teslin, with rain on and off.  But, the sun finally came out to warm us up and ignite another happy hour!

The Cassiar Highway connects the Yellowhead Highway to the Alaska Highway.  It’s funny because even though the highways have numbers, they are better known by their names.  The Cassiar Highway is BC Hwy 37, and we are at the starting point of the highway.  This is a “newer” highway 450 miles long, a 2-lane road completed in 1972, but services along the highway are scarce, so we’ve been warned to be sure we have fuel as we go through this stretch.  It is also known for good wildlife watching.

The Baby Nugget RV Park is small, but has a great restaurant “Wolf it Down”. We wanted to visit the gift shop which advertised a lot of native arts and crafts, but the owner was gone for a blood test and hasn’t returned the rest of the day, so we don’t know if she just skipped out for the rest of the day, or maybe is still waiting for her blood test to come back.  (That gives an idea of the size of the town!)

It was a mild activity day, as we are all preparing for the final week of the caravan.  We will say our final goodbyes and depart after breakfast just a week from today!

Spot got in trouble for the first time in a long time.  When we came back after happy hour, we found he had jumped up on the counter and ate a bowl of chicken and rice!   He has never done that before, and we were all surprised he would do such a thing!  We think he has been talking to some of the other dogs in the campground and gotten ideas –his doggie friend Leisel had almond bark today, so we think that is the source of the bad influence!