We spent our first night in the trailer last night and all went relatively well. We had to rearrange the tubs a little to make room for the mattress which required a littler coercion, but it all worked out. We found a nice little rest area with a bathroom (no business in the bushes - yay!) in a beautiful valley next to an icy lake that quite possibly may be the windiest location in North America. Several times in the night I woke up wondering if the wind was going to tear the trailer apart and leave us lying on our happy little air mattress looking up at the stars. Despite the powerful winds and gradual sliding to one side of the mattress due to the unlevel ground of the rest area, we slept well and were fully rested come morning. A baby wipe bath, dry shampoo, and quick bite to eat and we were on our way.
Much of the road on this portion of the ALCAN interfered with making impressive time. The permafrost under the road melts and refreezes (making me think we should change the name to something like flexifrost) creating frost heaves that give the road a bit of a roller coaster feel at times. There are also multiple sections of the road unpaved as construction workers repair the damage of harsh winters. The places that have good pavement and few frost heaves are usually too curvy to go very fast, but that also seems to be where all the good critter spotting is so we're not complaining. We're in no hurry anyway.
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