Right turn Clyde...

And so our journey begins. From Hinton, it was 470km to Dawson Creek and the start of the Alaska Highway

The road was built in 1942 after the bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese, when invasion of the West Coast of North America seemed imminent. Approximately 11,000 US soldiers descended on sleepy little towns in the north and they completed the pioneer road from Dawson Creek to Delta Junction in Alaska, a distance of 1,523 miles, in just over 8 months. This is what the sat nav showed for our journey from Dawson Creek to the turning for Fairbanks:

The longest single stretch of road so far had been across the Nullabor at 1,168kms from South Australia to Western Australia!

From Fort Nelson the scenery was spectacular. Summit Pass and the lake is the highest point on the Alaska Highway at 1,269m

And Muncho Lake is the lowest and also one of the most beautiful 

Along the way we stopped at Liard Hot Springs provincial park and had another bath. It was 30C that day and the hot pool was showing 52C! A bit too warm and I could only stand it for about 5 minutes, so we went into the lower pond and swam to the end where we found the start of the cool stream:

Riding shotgun means I get to take lots of photos out of the window but I also need to be on the lookout for hazards on the road. Everything is bigger over here, even the roadkill. We've encountered elk, caribou, moose

Big horn sheep, bison

and bears, although we were moving too fast to get photos of them!

Watson Lake is the home of the world famous Signpost Forest. In 1942 when the highway was being built, a homesick soldier put up a signpost showing how far he was from home. Since then, 78,000 signposts have been put up by people from all over the world. It really is something to see!

Up and over the Continental Divide and into Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon Territory,. Of the 36,000 people in the territory (bearing in mind it is over 483,000 square kilometres), 28,000 live here. They reckon there are twice as many moose as people in the Yukon.

We're about half way now and have covered about 1,900km since we left Hinton. Tomorrow we head towards Dawson City...