We woke up to a very smoky morning. We thought we may have been thru the worst of the smoke when we went to bed, but sometime during the night smoke blew in and it was as bad as we had seen yesterday.
We planned a long day driving today to get out of the smoke. We had targeted a town called Chedwyn, but as we pulled in the two parks in town were packed. It seems Chedwyn and Dawson Creek are having an oil boom with all of the good and bad that comes with it. Both towns were noticeably bigger than 5 years ago, and the quiet RV parks that were thrilled to see tourists are now very full with oil workers. Chedwyn was offering temporary parking in a parking lot in town. We decided to push on to Dawson City. As we pulled in it looked like the same problem. We checked in with the visitors center and they said it was rodeo week and they recommended we head up the highway.
The good news is that we are well out of the smoke and we have blue sky for tomorrows drive. Now we can try to slow down, even thought the next town is about 300 miles away. Also today we reached the official beginning of the Alaska Highway.
