We enjoyed the Cultural Heritage Exhibit, The Dawson Museum, and ended the day at Diamond Tooth Gertties Gambling Hall. We watched the dancing girls and Cara won about $35 gambling, enough to cover drinks and tips for the night.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
The Klondike loop
We get up bright and early for our adventure into Canadia. The border crossing was simple enough, we got through after a couple questions and a compliment on the Donkey. The roads are a mixture of a little worse than the US side and a lot better, even with several miles of pavement and a couple guardrails. It's another beautiful day, and a nice drive on the 'Top of the World' Highway. We get to the Yukon river and the George Black Ferry about 10:30am, a short ride later we're in Dawson. We find an RV park and set off walking about town.
We enjoyed the Cultural Heritage Exhibit, The Dawson Museum, and ended the day at Diamond Tooth Gertties Gambling Hall. We watched the dancing girls and Cara won about $35 gambling, enough to cover drinks and tips for the night.
We enjoyed the Cultural Heritage Exhibit, The Dawson Museum, and ended the day at Diamond Tooth Gertties Gambling Hall. We watched the dancing girls and Cara won about $35 gambling, enough to cover drinks and tips for the night.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Trouble at the Border
Memorial Day we left our Friends at Tanacross headed for the Top of the World highway and Dawson, Canada.
We decided to stop in Tok (pronounced toke) AK at the visitors center to see if they have any info on Chicken, Eagle, or Dawson. The visitor Center is really nice, a big log cabin with many different displays about the different parts of Alaska, including life in the interior where temps soar into the 90's in the summer, with almost 24 hours of sunlight a day, then plummet over 150 degrees in the winter, with no daylight and a record low below -80. Yikes.
I ask the attendant about Dawson, and he informs me the Border crossing at Boundry, AK is closed until the 30th, 3 days away, since the ferry at Dawson isn't even in the water yet. The unusually later spring has delayed everything.What? This throws a bit of a wrench into the works, but fortunately, we have a bit of extra time, and decide to explore this part of the country a little while we wait for the border to open.
We decided to stop in Tok (pronounced toke) AK at the visitors center to see if they have any info on Chicken, Eagle, or Dawson. The visitor Center is really nice, a big log cabin with many different displays about the different parts of Alaska, including life in the interior where temps soar into the 90's in the summer, with almost 24 hours of sunlight a day, then plummet over 150 degrees in the winter, with no daylight and a record low below -80. Yikes.
I ask the attendant about Dawson, and he informs me the Border crossing at Boundry, AK is closed until the 30th, 3 days away, since the ferry at Dawson isn't even in the water yet. The unusually later spring has delayed everything.What? This throws a bit of a wrench into the works, but fortunately, we have a bit of extra time, and decide to explore this part of the country a little while we wait for the border to open.
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