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This was a day off from riding. I spent the entire afternoon
and evening editing photos from previous days, entering text and uploading
new web pages. I lucked out; the motel manager also worked for NorthwesTel,
the phone company, so he hooked me up for the day.
Though Tim, Nelson and I stayed in a motel (2 rooms), I ate breakfast with
the rest of the group at the campsite. Over the past two weeks all the members
of this little tour group have become good friends with one-another. After
breakfast, we all headed out to see the Watson Lake sights. Most notable
is the "signpost forest;" an incredible collection of almost 30,000
city signs posted by visitors from around the world.
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I looked hard for a stolen Williamston City Limits sign but never
found one. To see all 30,000 signs would have taken days, so I gave up.
I did see some familiar Michigan cities: Southfield, Kalamazoo and Suttons
Bay. Adjacent to the signpost forest, there is an excellent museum display
regarding the construction of the Alaska Highway.
Six of us ate lunch at an all you can eat buffet and shopped. I bought a
new fleece jacket for the cold weather that then turned sunny and nice.
I stopped at Greyhound after lunch to check on my forwarded Oakley sunglasses,
only to discover that they had already closed for the day and wouldn't open
until tomorrow afternoon, when I'd be well on my way again.
After a relaxing day of sightseeing and shopping, I returned to my motel room. Tim had moved in with me. I was computing so intensely, that the others brought food to me and I didn't manage to eat it until after 10:00. Our motel room became a social focal-point. Carol stopped by to take a hot shower. Nelson came by to download his Kodak DC-50 photos to my PowerBook. Nelson, Tim and I were computing well into the night.
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