June 22 thru June 28, 2014

Sunday June 22 thru June 28, 2014

We had a lazy morning in Whitehorse Yukon and decided  around 10:30 am to go and purchase tickets for the Frantic Follies for the evening performance and  then check out the town.

Checked out the Visitors Center, used their WiFi and then continued on to several museums.   The Yukon is having a contest for some Gold.   You have to visit at least 10 of the museums, sites of interest and get stamped to enter.   Linda and I are having a great time getting the stamps.  The contest is until August so we have time to try and finish getting our stamps.  We have 13 so far and hope to get 20 of them for a better chance of winning more gold.

At one of the museums we actually panned for gold and we both got several little flakes.   They put them in a little vile of water for you.

Last evening we went to the Frantic Follies  here in Whitehorse.   It was about the life during the gold rush here in the Yukon.   Lots of great young talent in the show.

Monday 6/23/14

We left Whitehorse around 9:30 am and immediately started running into some gravel road, construction and frost heaves.   Slow travel.

We have now seen 22 bears and 4 of them have been Grizzly, 2 of which were t oday.We stopped in another Visitors information center to get another stamp, watch a movie and use wi fi.   After lunch Larry went back inside to use wifi and found that Linda had left her purse.   When he took it to her she was not even aware she had left it.    Man that would have been a MESS…. We have stopped for the evening at a pull off.  It is really strange with so much daylight.

Here is a grizzly and the another picture is the scene outside   our window tonight .

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

We have now been in Canada for 14 days and the good Lord willing we will be back in the USA in a little while.  We are having lots of bad road at this point with stretches of gravel anywhere from ½ mile to 7 or 8 miles plus one point we were lead by a Pilot Car due to one side being worked on.

We arrived at the Border at 10:34 Alaska time. We traveled on to Tok and got a campsite for the night and Larry proceeded to WASH the motorhome and car.,     They were both MUDDY!!!!!!!

Wednesday 6/25   we traveled on down to Valdez Ak, which I am sure all of you remember about the oil spill.   We are at Bayside RV Park right on the Prince William Sound is it is so pretty.  Only problem it has been raining and it is colder than I would like. 

Thursday 6/26 we just visited around this little town watching people fish, checked out a fish hatchery.  Had lunch at a rally neat place called the Fat Mermaid. We got to talk to Karen , the owner really a great time. The food was good too.  It was still just misting rain and damp but we are still having a great time. We are planning to leave here on Saturday heading over to Anchorage and then places further south. Glacier outside of Valdez I forgot to mention that the guys here in the RV Park feed the Eagles every afternoon.    They stand out and wave a fish and then throw it on the ground and the eagles swoop down and pick it up. 

Friday we woke up to SUNSHINE, still chilly but at least not raining, we checked out another museum and as Linda says they  focus  more on the 1964 Earthquake that destroyed the town.  32 people were killed and they eventually moved the town and lots of houses to another location.  They don’t talk much about the oil spill as I think there are still a lot of hard feelings with that one.  We met a guy who was fishing yesterday and he told us he plays on Friday night at the Fat Mermaid so we went to listen to him for a while last night.   He is from Hawaii and is really good. We had a great time.  We are leaving this morning and just taking our time heading down to Homer to do some fishing along the way and just enjoy more beautiful scenery .

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