The caravan trip ended July 15th, with the last stop Stewart / Hyder. Stewart is in British Columbia, but Hyder is in Alaska. The border kinds of meanders. Hyder is the "last frontier town" Once a thriving logging and mining town, it now has only 40 residents, no law enforcement, no paved roads, and no zoning rules. During the Korean war and, to some degree, the Vietnam war it became a refuge for folks who wanted to avoid the draft. Even though it is part of the United States.
It is now officially a ghost town, dependent on tourist trade, but that is drying up as well. You can get to Hyder without going through US customs, but to return to Stewart you have to have "papers".
We got Hyderized, I can't share the secret, but it involves some 150 proof liquor.
We trekked up to Bear Creek to watch the salmon run, but no bears were feeding. It was a little early for spawning and feeding.
We had our farewell dinner. A group of us composed a poem to "roast" the caravan leaders, sung to the tune of Frosty the Snowman. 
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