I've seen fire and I've seen rain

Well, I've got several amazing days to post about, but not enough time to type about them all.

For now we're laid over in Dawson City, YT.  Our dreams of riding the Top of the World Highway between Dawson City, YT and Chicken, AK having been dashed by rains that have washed out the highway.  Road repairs won't begin until the rain stops, and the rain isn't stopping until at least tomorrow.  No one knows how many days it'll take for repairs, and we don't have time to wait and find out.  We're going to stay one extra night here in hopes of hearing news that motorcycles might find their way through the construction zone, but the rain is pretty heavy, so that seems impossible now.

Tomorrow, we'll probably ride south back to Whitehorse, then maybe over to ride a scenic loop around Haines Junction, Skagway, and Haines.   The day after that we'd like to start our ride down the Stewart Cassiar Highway but it's been closed on-and-off for the past 10 days due to wildfires.  We'll be lucky if we get through.  Watson Lake, YT, near the north end of the highway, was thick with smoke when we went through about a week ago.  If the fire gets really bad at Watson Lake, then we might be stranded north for a bit because the only two roads south (Stewart Cassiar and the Alaska Highway) junction there.

If we could only move this rain down to the fires...