We are off today for Whitehorse, YT. The scenery is just getting better and better and the valleys have opened up a bit. Quick change of plans! At milepost 836 we hit a place called Jake’s Corner where Yukon Highway 8 goes off to allow one to go to Carcross and the South Klondike Highway to Skagway, AK. But also, there is a small 58-mile end road that will take us to Atlin. Atlin is a very small former mining and rail head town situated in a spectacular valley overlooking 90 mile long Atlin Lake. The lake is fed by several glaciers. To go there we actually reenter British Columbia about a third of the way there. The road is a gravel road with paving the last 12 miles before and into Atlin. We left the RV at the gas station and restaurant that comprises Jake’s Corner and unhitched the Saturn for the trip to Atlin. What a fantastic series of vistas all along the road. First we passed little Atlin Lake and it is a beautiful setting. The gravel road is quite hard packed and not too many loose stones flying up. Passed only about 20 cars going the other way in the whole trip. Atlin is a delightful little old town of about 6 streets, all dirt but one, and a number of early 1900’s homes and businesses. There are two active restaurants in the town. One was closed as it was Sunday and the other was more of a café at the only gas station in town. We drove the entire town and part of the road that continues past Atlin toward the glacier viewing area while taking photos and video. 
Pat drove the trip back from Atlin to Jake’s Corners and the trip back offered awesome views in the different direction but every bit as pretty and scenic as the trip in. When hooking up the RV we ally pulled the wires out of the lighting plug connecting the car to the RV. It is a six wire connector plug but we are only using four of the wires. Unfortunately the color coding is not correct and I don’t know how many permutations and combinations are available for the four wire to six connectors but I believe I tried nearly all of them to try and get the wiring back the way it needs to be! Took about an hour of changing and testing and the mosquitoes came out just about then too!
We still continued on to Whitehorse, getting there a lot later than the 3 to 4 PM we like to stop. We found the local Wal-Mart and decided to camp in their lot. We were not alone. We have never seen so many RV’s in a Wal-Mart. There were over 45 of us and one man Dick talked to said that the night before there were nearly a hundred! The store even has a couple of large signs posted in their lot designating which areas of the lot may be used for overnight camping. Wal-Marts always welcome RV’ers to stay for free unless local ordinances prohibit it and many people do it nearly every night. Can save a lot on a trip as the normal commercial campground with water and electric hook ups and either an individual sewage connection or dump site costs from $20 to $28 a night. State or provincial parks usually charge about $10 for Dry Camping, i.e. no water or electric or sewer connections.
After dinner we hit the local library for internet connections but only had about 15 minutes as it closed at 9 PM.
Pat drove the trip back from Atlin to Jake’s Corners and the trip back offered awesome views in the different direction but every bit as pretty and scenic as the trip in. When hooking up the RV we ally pulled the wires out of the lighting plug connecting the car to the RV. It is a six wire connector plug but we are only using four of the wires. Unfortunately the color coding is not correct and I don’t know how many permutations and combinations are available for the four wire to six connectors but I believe I tried nearly all of them to try and get the wiring back the way it needs to be! Took about an hour of changing and testing and the mosquitoes came out just about then too!
We still continued on to Whitehorse, getting there a lot later than the 3 to 4 PM we like to stop. We found the local Wal-Mart and decided to camp in their lot. We were not alone. We have never seen so many RV’s in a Wal-Mart. There were over 45 of us and one man Dick talked to said that the night before there were nearly a hundred! The store even has a couple of large signs posted in their lot designating which areas of the lot may be used for overnight camping. Wal-Marts always welcome RV’ers to stay for free unless local ordinances prohibit it and many people do it nearly every night. Can save a lot on a trip as the normal commercial campground with water and electric hook ups and either an individual sewage connection or dump site costs from $20 to $28 a night. State or provincial parks usually charge about $10 for Dry Camping, i.e. no water or electric or sewer connections.
After dinner we hit the local library for internet connections but only had about 15 minutes as it closed at 9 PM.
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