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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (212085)7/25/2009 1:13:24 PM
From: pstuartb of 306849
 
OT- Alcan My wife and I drove the Alcan about 20 years ago. My recollection is that southern BC looks a lot like the Cascades in Washington, and northern BC is mostly flat farmland.

The Yukon was weird, though. Strangely symmetrical, pyramidical mountains covered with dwarf spruce. Looking at a forest of dwarf spruce will kind of bend your perspective. Fully grown, hundred year-old trees are about 5 feet tall and when you look at a million of them together everything seems farther away than it is.

I remember having to stop on the highway so a family of bears could pass, and another time a herd of mountain goats. Lots of moose sightings. Back then at least, the road was under a constant state of construction and repair and stretches of a dozen miles or so were mud and gravel. The Milepost keeps up on current conditions.

The people seemed to get a bit more offbeat as we got further into the Yukon. I remember stopping at a diner for lunch, miles from anywhere. A guy in the booth next to us was almost falling down drunk at about 11:00 in the morning. He kept watching some fish swim around in the big fish tank that was between us. At one point he got up and stuck his arm all the way in the tank in an attempt to grab one of the fishes. The waitress who was serving us was totally unfazed, and said, "now Earl, quit bothering the fishes. You can't be that hungry after all the waffles you et."
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