May 18,'17 Thursday Last night when I typed I knew I had limited data so I wrote accordingly, WELL! I had 150 MB! More than I could use up, so I went to town on the photos, even some from days ago. I ran out of steam before I used my data. That is probably a first on the road!, not using all my data, I frequently run out of steam. We left Rocky Mountain Lodge, Muncho Lake, BC at 39* and light rain at 8. Frank is none too impressed with this town, but a very few hardy folks call it home. The hours of daylight are long, making it hard to sleep. It is light when we go to bed and lighter when we get up. We had been told we WOULD see bison. We drove for some time and being the excellent trackers of bison dung that we are we finally saw a small group of bison sunning them selves. There were four babies that are very young. All bison are born near the same day in May and are red for a year or more as I recall. We bounced along and a black bear ran across the road in front of us. We happened upon another black bear sniffing the buffalo dung. He must be an excellent tracker too. The book says we are to watch for bison for 75 miles, well there are bison piles for even longer than that! We did see two other bison. One was alone and looked skinny and old. I guess he is out to pasture. We also saw a rabbit and a porcupine. HEY! It is not nice to make fun of excellent trackers. Later a deer mom and two young were standing in the road, as soon as we passed they got back in the road....it is their road. The traffic is very light. We do not remember that it is SOOOO remote! How could we not remember there is no one here for MILES! We also remember that there were signs for cinnamon buns, but have only seen one, that one was closed. We did not see any snow capped mountains until afternoon today. We stopped in Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, " the gateway to the Yukon. We especially went to the sign forest to visit the sign we left in 2011 and visited in 2015. This attraction actually started during the road construction when a soldier left his hometown name on a sign he nailed to a tree. Others joined and now there are many thousands of signs. I guess today we would say it went viral. We had lunch here and gassed up at $1.129 L. I have been missing the decimal in previous blogs. We are still driving on Hwy. 97. We began picking up mile marker signs yesterday about every 5 Kilometers. Today they have increased to maybe every 2 km when we crossed into the Yukon. We passed over the continental divide. The waters drains on the west from this point eventually into the Bering Sea, the Pacific Ocean. The east draining waters flow into Beaufort Sea, the Arctic Ocean. The road conditions are very rough. We have gravel sections and chip seal, a mixture of gravel with a little tar as glue. Winters are hard and the crews were out working today. They were using what looked like a big rake that had no problems loosing the surface and a roller came along and smoothed it out, so to speak. We crossed the Nisutlin Bridge in Teslin that is the longest span on the Alaska Hwy. When we approach we can see that the Teslin Lake is still frozen! This lake is said to be 85 miles long. I wonder how far it is frozen? We usually stay in this town, but I saw an ad for the 'famous cinnamon bun' just a few miles further and they also are a lodge and campground! Campgrounds are few and far between and vary widely in what they offer. It is always a little risky to pass what you know and can see, for what might lie ahead. We arrive at Johnson's Crossing Lodge and Campground at nearly 5 pm. The park is good enough and the restaurant is open. Ed thought the prices a mite high. The breakfast of two eggs and toast was $12.95. We understand why since they are so remote that getting supplies must be a nightmare. We tried the blueberry scones for dinner and snack and tomorrow morning my mouth will be judging the cinnamon buns they are serving. The scone was huge and filling. This park is near the Teslin River and we walked under the bridge. Yes Frank tonight we are living under a bridge. It was a long driving day. At one point Ed said " the road that never ends".Sighting today: numerous, but they made us work for themMiles: 358To be continued....It appears we have good wifi, so I will upload if possible.