We left Fairbanks on Monday July 21, 2014 and headed to Tok Ak and on to Chicken Ak. We stopped in Tok for lunch at Fast Eddies, where we had eaten before and then started on to Chicken so that we could travel across The Top of the World Highway to Dawson City, Yukon. We arrived at Chicken and got settled for the night.
Tuesday morning Linda Matheny and I went on a tour of the old town of chicken. We had both read the book, Tisha which was about a young girl who came there in the early 1900's to teach school. We saw the old school house where she taught and the other side of that building was where she lived. After that we started our trip on the Top of the World Highway around noon. . Oh my goodness what a beautiful drive but a white knuckle day. It reminded me of the trip on the Million Dollar Highway in Colorado along with the off road jeeping trip we took. Rough road, gravel, curves, steep drove offs, no guard rails and some traffic that was not so nice about slowing down and sharing the road. Fortunately when there were 3 LARGE trucks on the road we were stopped at a pull off for a break and lunch.It was a long day but a good one. We certainly got the right traveling conditions weather wise. We arrived at the Ferry to go across the Yukon River to Dawson City about 5:30 and it took several trips for us to get across. It holds quite a few cars and trucks but about 1 motorhome and a few other vehicles is all for one trip. Jim and Linda went across first and then it came back for us. It was a little scary but very well done.It was a very new adventure for us.
Wednesday Larry wanted to do somethings around the motorhome so Jim, Linda and I went into Dawson City to finish our Passport Book Contest for Gold and did a little shopping. Linda did some gold panning again. That woman is addicted to that. Around 7 pm we went into town to go to Diamond Tooth Gerties for the show. What a good time we had. Larry had one of the girls sit on his lap, then one sang to him while rubbing his bald head. You know he enjoyed that.
Thursday we did a couple of more stores and then a museum road up on Dome Road to look down on the city and the river.
Friday was a travel day heading on into Whitehorse, We stopped at a rest area to look at the Five Fingers which is a really hard place in the river to steer the old paddleboats and a lady was talking to Jim about the dogs. I asked her where she was from since I could tell it was from the south. She said north Mississippi up by Tennessee., I said, Corinth, she was so surprised that I knew where it was. It is not far from Selmer Tenn where we lived many years ago.We also saw a funeral procession for a First Nation member walking up a hill to the burial place. Stayed overnight in a pull off.
Saturday we traveled on to Whitehorse and then on to a pulloff by Swan Lake where we had stayed on the way out.
Sunday we decided to get on the road early in hopes of finding some early morning wildlife and we did. We saw several more bears . Our total now is 35 blacks and 7 of them were grizzly. We started down the Cassiar Highway We are now having some more bad roads with lots of pot holes, gravel so it is slow going.We have seen the effects of the 2010 forest fire that was started by lightening which burned about 30000 acres of land. We are heading down to Stewart BC and Hyder Alaska to see if the Bears are fishing for salmon, rest area overnight.
Monday we arrived at the Meziadin Provincial Park and got set up for a couple of nights. Jim made a major boo boo when we stopped for fuel. Problems with the fuel pump, had to wait for re set still did work so Larry and I left and came on to park. They got here a little later and Jim suddenly realized he had not paid for the 4 gallons of fuel he finally got but also realized when Larry told him that he had left his credit card there. He had to drive 160 miles round trip to retrieve his card. Larry and I rode into Stewart/Hyder to see where the bears are suppose to fish. We found it!!!!!!!!!!! Got to see this very large bear catch a fish and eat it. It was a sight to see, One the way back to the campsite we saw 5 bears and an avalanche in progress. It was really cool. Snow and rocks coming down into a stream of water. It happened so fast I could not get a picture.
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