Supplies on board and trying to forget our brush with Walmart, with better weather in the offing further north we left Whitehorse in a miserable cold rain headed for Dawson City 532kms up the Klondike Highway .
"Walmart in Whitehorse" Truth is, that this is the real threat to our Arctic Sovereignty. What next? Walmart in Dawson City and Inuvik? Come on Hutch get your mind back to where it has been for the past week!!
As promised (on the weather Network) the weather and the scenery improved immensely the further north we proceeded. Great views at the Yukon River Valley and the TinTina Trench
Gas at Carmacs YT and lunch at Grandma's Kitchen at Pelly's Crossing. I went for the exotic and ordered a caribou hot dog (tough as leather).
As with all these highway stops a completely screened in enclosure is provided for customers so they can enjoy their food away from the ever present swarms of bugs. Fortunately we seem to have avoided bug season.
One of our voracious followers commented that the night sky must be a spectacle of stars given the complete lack of ambient light int this part of the world. Fact is, we haven't seen any stars yet because the sun doesn't disappear sufficiently until after midnight even at this time of year, way past our bed time. This will not be the case for much longer at which point we will report back.
Arrived in Dawson City around 4:00pm local time, checked into a much too expensive cabin at Klondike Kates and went for a walk. Boardwalks and unpaved dusty streets added to the ambiance of this unabashed tourist trap of a town. At one point the dust precipitated back to earth during a brief sun shower and the visual effect was like watching a curtain of beads being lowered from the sky. Unfortunately I did not have a camera handy to get a picture (Damn!)
The curtain went up on the show at Diamond Tooth Gerdy's at 8:00pm sharp. We joined the rest of the old folks from the inland tour portion of Holland America Alaskan cruise and were plesantly surprised at the quality of the show and the Lasagna.
Tomorrow, a trip up Dome Mountain here in Dawson City and back along the highway about 40Kms to take on the Dempster.
My darling Brother you missed your true calling in life!! I so look forward to your blogs.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you keep going along the Top of the World Hwy to Chicken Alaska? That would be a cool place to say you have been. Would they even have a customs office along the Border?
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