Sorry this post isn’t getting posted until 6/17, Sunday Father’s Day, Happy Father’s Day Dave. When I had gotten up on Saturday morning, Dave slept in, we had no internet. Dave walked up to the office a little bit later and found out we had used up all of our time. I guess it is posted somewhere to stop the down loads on your computer or you would use up your time and have to pay for internet. Dave paid for the extra internet time and came back to the coach and shut off the computers updates. He forgot about the Picasso updates and his computer wiped us out again. Didn’t want to pay for more internet so will post this when we get to Chicken Alaska. 6/17
6/15 night time
Last night we did go to the show at the Oldest Casino in Canada “Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall” it was fun to see. We sat down at a table with some people from Kansas who were on a Plane/Bus tour, very nice people. The show was pretty good, we have seen Can Can Girls before at other places, it was fun though. I enjoyed watching the gambling tables too, as soon as no one was at a table the pit bosses came by and covered up the chips ASAP. Not use to seeing that in the U.S., it’s like they have no trust in the employees. Dave said it could be the Canada laws that they have to be so careful, who knows.
6/16 Still in Dawson City, day of touring
Woke up with the mosquito bite left eye swollen shut. Put some ice on it and could finally open it. Dave said it was because of my “auto immune problem, that’s why my system over reacts to things, since I have psoriasis. We took the ferry over in the Jeep to see what was on the other side, it’s free so why not. Getting off the ferry is very rough, going to have to drive very slowly. We think we will drive separately then hook up the jeep on the other side, the ferry employees said it would be easier. We drove through the campground, to check it out, we could get in there if we had too. Then we started driving the “Top of the World” Highway, it is one hell of a climb for a long time. The sights are unbelievable. You get paved road then a lot of gravel, but the gravel road seems better then the paved road. We drove and drove and then decided to turn around we had driven a long way and since we have to do it again we got an idea how the road was. Dave was going to wait to get fuel in Chicken because we still had like 55 gallons left, and it was cheaper there, but with that big of a climb we would probably only get 2 miles to the gallon, I said “NO WAY” we are getting fuel. I would wather be safe like to be safe then sorry, even if we have to pay more. Of course once we got to the top, everything else is down hill but I want to make sure we get to the top. (sorry one of my rules) Chicken, Alaska is I think 108 miles away but I don’t care, once we are going down hill we probably get 10 miles to the gallon, but I don’t know for sure.
Back to what we did today. After the long drive we came back on the ferry, with, which I didn’t like because the river is moving so fast and to me the ferry isn’t that big, was a big dump truck and a skip loader, I guess these guys know what they are doing. We then went to the Cultural Centre to hear about the Tr’ondek Hwech 1st Nations who were here first, very interesting. I know I’m not into the culture stuff, but to hear about what these cultures had to go through is amazing. This one was settled 14 years ago, amazing for this Indian Tribe.
We then finished the Geo Caches, then went to the Parks Canada Visitor Center, to get our prize for having all the answers and they were out of the pins they give out. So the girl ended up giving us a Dredge Pin, at least it was something. Tonight after dinner we went to the Robert Service Cabin and heard all about him, believe it or not he was a great funny poet, or at least the guy that gave the presentation was great reading those poems. Then back to the RV because it was kind of a long drive tomorrow. We are going to stop at either Chicken or Tok Alaska, not sure what yet!
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