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<\/a>In Destruction Bay, I was hosted by a wonderful Warmshowers host who offered a small apartment next to the school.\u00a0 It was so nice that I decided to take a day off! Shower, bed, pillow, kitchen, oh it was awesome!<\/p>\n
Destruction Bay, as the name suggests, is well known for very strong winds, along the beautiful, but sometimes mean Kluane Lake.<\/p>\n But when I started riding east, I got the most quiet conditions imaginable.\u00a0 The lake was like a mirror and the morning light combined with the haze caused by forest fires in Alaska was making everything look surreal.<\/p>\n I loved that ride, so peaceful and quiet, early in the morning. Even near Slims River, where I expected to get sand blasted, there was no wind.\u00a0 Soooo lucky! I took so many pictures that I started wondering if I would reach Haines Junction.<\/p>\n But and after some awesome riding, I arrived, with my first stop at the Village Bakery where I pretty much bought everything that they had marked as \u201creduced to clear\u201d.\u00a0 It may have been a day old, but it seemed so very fresh to me.\u00a0 I indulged and enjoyed every bite, sometimes forgetting to chew, and with a full belly, I biked to the nearby campground (Pine Lake) where I jumped in the lake to refresh. It was close to 30 degrees (Celsius!) in the shade. It was almost scary to be in a crowd though… Long weekend in Canada, and hot weather translated into families and dogs at the beach.<\/p>\n The next day, after I stopped to eat yet another chocolate bar (I ate more chocolate bars in the last month than I did in the previous 10 years!), I met 2 tour cyclists.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t seen any since Tok, and I was so excited to meet other members of the “tribe” that I started talking at a rate of about 1000 words a minute. Once we said goodbye and safe travels, I seemed to have renewed energy and pedaled hard until I reached Irene\u2019s place, a small cafe\/offsales place in Mendenhall, 75 km from Whitehorse, where I had a beer with the locals.<\/p>\n Apparently few people know about that place, and the locals like it that way\u2026 It was absolutely awesome, and later I met a local dog musher with whom I had supper, and then we visited yet a third musher who lives on a farm nearby.\u00a0 Since all 3 of us had run the Yukon Quest before, we had lots of stories to share and I had an awesome evening.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>