Juneau to Seattle by plane: 3 hours
Seattle to Juneau by car (plus one ferry ride): 13 days
After spending a few days in Banff and Jasper National Parks, we continued our road trip. We headed west to Prince George, then onward past Smithers and up the Cassiar Highway. There were oodles of black bears along this stretch of road. So instead of doing a log watch to avoid hitting logs with our sailboat, this time we had a bear watch to avoid hitting large critters with our car. Luckily we were in no hurry. We developed the habit of honking at the bears we saw in an attempt to condition them to associate cars with a negative stimulus. Some ran, others just ignored us, so I think our Psychology 101 experiment wasn't very successful.
This is the Haines Junction 'muffin' sculpture. It features various northern mammals emerging from a muffin-esque mountain. Speaking of muffins, there is a very good bakery in Haines Junction, so if your travels ever take you here make sure you check it out.
Once we got to Yukon territory the terrain started to get very spectacular. It was hard to capture the landscape in photos. It is very different than the Canadian Rockies where we had just been. The foothills are more rounded here and things almost look pastoral, except you realize just how immense the land is. You could easily wander and become a disappearing speck very quickly.
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