6/14 Moose Creek Yukon Government Campground

We were suppose to stop in at Pelly Crossing and spend the night but Dave thought the campground was on the other side of the bridge, at least that’s how he remembered Google Maps looking, it wasn’t.  He needs to trust the Milepost book not Google maps. The roads we are driving on are only 2 lanes and todays didn’t even have shoulders to pull over on. So if you miss any turn offs you must keep going the next turnoff/pullover place is miles and miles down the road. We thought about going all the way to Dawson City but that was still another 160 miles away and we had already been driving for 3 1/2 hours, which I know doesn’t sound like much but being in a big motorhome it is long. Todays roads we hit a lot of frost heaves and rough pavement so we had to drive very cautiously, very draining on the body and mind. We did make a couple stops along the way, quick stops to either check out the sites or places that they are famous for. Braeburn Lodge is another world famous cinnamon bun place, we never eat cinnamon buns but we couldn’t resist their ad. The place we stopped at a few days ago was a really good cinnamon bun place now Braeburn’s we haven’t tried yet, not hungry now, but the size of it will feed 4 people easily, too funny.

Dave will get the picture of it posted later. After Braeburn Lodge we pulled over in Carmacks they are “the hub of the Yukon” but didn’t find their visitor centre because of all the road construction going on there. Oh, forgot to mention the airport at Braeburn’s is called the cinnamon bun strip. Then we missed Pelly Crossing, so we stopped at the Moose Creek Yukon Government Campground. We are dry camping and after we got all set up we went for a walk and to pay for our camping. My goodness the insects around here, don’t leave home without the bug repellent. The mosquitoes are huge, and there are lots of them. Even the lodge down the road has a monster mosquito  mounted outside, they said the bugs are really friendly too. This campground even gives free firewood, good for them, who the hell is going to sit outside anyway with all those mosquitos. After visiting the lodge Dave and I decided to sit our butts in the RV.

We did run into rain on the drive today off and on. As a matter of fact it’s raining now which cuts down on the bugs.  I started to tell about walking around the campground, which we did bugs and all, but we are parked next to the only spot that has Bear droppings next to it, just our luck. At 1st we were the only people here but now about 7 more have pulled in, that time of day to get off the road because of all the wild life. I’m keeping the shades open in the front of the coach just in case a bear should come by.