Day 26

Sunday - You never know what a day might hold. We weren’t sure what we were going to do today but I cleaned up the distributor cap and rotor and taped an ignition wire that was leaking last night. We asked the Lord to reveal His will to us took a step of faith and left the campsite. After a test run the engine seemed to be running better and we felt the Lord leading us to drive to Watson Lake. I must admit that it would have been very easy to go to the auto parts store and buy the parts that I needed but as two weeks ago in the same town, I was not going to compromise my convictions and buy on a Sunday. We had a nice drive to Watson lake (220 mile) seeing what we had seen 15 days earlier but from a different direction. This is one section of the Alaskan Highway you cannot avoid backtracking. We did see two bear today and one was close enough that we got some pictures but not very good ones. We were planning on taking route 37 south from Watson Lake but when we got here we found out that route 37 is closed due to a bridge or two being washed out on Saturday during a very heavy rain. This means we need to backtrack the Alaskan Highway another six hundred mile the next two days. This also means that we won’t be able to have our last farewell to Alaska in Hyder because we would need to drive over 800 mile back north and then turn around and come back the same way. We just don’t have the time or the energy to drive an additional 1600+ miles. It is kind of disappointing but the Lord has our days planned so it will be exciting to see what happens.