Oh boy, what a trip and what views we saw on Sunday. The only way it could have been better would have been if the sun had been able to come out more. This was our first southward drive in quiet some time. We had been going mostly northward since we were in Montana and headed toward the Canadian border. From White Horse, YT we backtracked 6 miles and turned towards Skagway, AK. This is not a long drive, but we were going to take it slowly and hit as many sights along the way as we could.
One of our first stops was Emerald Lake. Unlike the weedy, green lake I grew up near, and learned to swim in as a child, this is a spectacularly green lake nestled up against the mountains. The sky had not clouded over yet so we had some sunlight on the scene and some blue sky showing over the mountains.
Further down the road, we came to the Carcross Desert. This is not really a desert but a wide sandy area, formerly part of an inland sea. Winds across the sand keep most plants from getting a toe hold here except for a few flowers and pines. The signs here said to be careful where you step because of rare plants but there was some numbskull on a motorbike driving over the dunes. 
Next we came to Carcross, YT, formerly named Caribou Crossing. This small town was where the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway was completed with the driving of a golden spike. There is a visitor’s center, a general store, a train station, and lots of little gold rush buildings in pretty nice condition. There were a couple of tour buses there when we arrived and a couple more motorhomes came in while we were there.
Up the road we started getting up to the higher elevations and there were no more towns or services. We did meet up with the railway line again and saw it winding along the rivers and lakes. We passed the Canadian Customs station and soon arrived at the border of Alaska and the Yukon. we still had to go down through winding roads along the side of the mountains before we got to US Customs. They stopped us and looked through our fridges and cautioned us about bringing vegetables back into Canada. The restrictions are never very cut and dried. It kind of depends on who is manning the booth that day.
From there we came into Skagway and wound all the way down to the ship docks, which is where the campground is that we are staying at for 3 nights. Our sites on in a parking lot with water and electric, but they face right out onto the piers where the cruise ships tie up.
