Haines to Tok

We arrived in Haines by ferry and began our adventure up the Haines Highway and onto the Alaska Highway.  Haines was a beautiful small fishing town where cruise ships only arrive in port on Wednesdays.  So, the town was empty except for the few tourists that came by car or RV.  Our campsite on the Chilkat River and the Chilkoot state park was picture perfect...resident grizzly with two cubs appeared off and on checking the stream for salmon. We even saw her gracefully sit in the stream and scoop up salmon and then tear them apart on a convenient rock!  She occasionally shared with the cubs!  (David, we were so close that we could hear the Mama growl at the cubs to stay close)  This bear or BMJ,( the locals name for her), has had triplets three times since making her home in Haines.  The say the bears really appear in Aug and Sept. when the salmon run it at its height!  They were counting salmon at a fish weird with that days count of 225 and 12,000 since the season opened!  Yesterday, we began our adventure and I mean adventure along the Alaska Highway.  They have a bumper sticker that says, "I survived the Alaska Highway!" Permafrost causes severe road damage that has to be repaired every year!  We heard every rattle in the RV and every rock that hit the RV from the gravel on the road.  We are seriously thinking about taking the fast speed ferry back to Washington rather than drive that road again! Along the way there were magnificent views, more eagles, a large grizzly along the side of the road, swains, construction, dust, gravel, ....