Alaska Road Trip Wed July 27th – Day 22 Valdez to Chicken, AK

We left Valdez at 7:45 am, it was 50 degrees and partly cloudy, stopped and grabbed a coffee and hit the road.  We stopped along the way and had our bowl of cereal for breakfast in the truck.  Finally near Stewart Creek we saw the sun….yes, this is great. We are headed for Chicken, AK today, about 344 miles.  We stopped in Tok, AK for gas around 2:15 and then arrived in Chicken about 5:30.

 The town of Chicken is so small and remote that they have no phones, no internet, no flushing toilets, no electricity and run on there own generators.  Chicken is an old, but still active Gold Mining area.  The population is 23 in the summer and 6 in the winter.  We got to dry camp for free since we filled up for gas there, which of course was pricey.  But, we did get a whole chicken dinner for a buck fifty.  What’s a whole chicken dinner?  One hard boiled egg.  We did have a fried chicken dinner by the campground and it was just OK. Like everywhere we have traveled, we meet and talked with some nice locals and travelers.  We also saw another Moose today just outside of Tok.  They are usually just along side of the road grazing.

To date we have driven 5,194 miles. Wow…my backside feels it!! Sorry the pictures won't upload at this campground.