Thursday July 28th – Day 23 Chicken to Dawson City

Today is the Big day….we will be traveling to the “Top of the World” in the Yukon.  We have spent 15 spectacular days touring around Alaska and absolutely loved it.  I think our favorite spots where Homer, Valdez and Denali National Park. There are so many berry bushes(Blueberry, Blackberry, Roseberry etc.) everywhere around the state, but we were about 1 month to early for picking.  We also missed the running of the Silver Salmon by about 2 weeks.  I think if we were to do this again we would come around the first of August.

So, after a long night of rain again, we closed up our camp and decided to treat ourselves to Alaskan Blueberry Waffles in Chicken before tackling the long drive ahead.  The first 35 – 40 miles was a very rough, dirt and gravel road to the Canadian Border, which took just over 2 hours and one flat tire.  We had 4 Caribou(2 moms with 2 babies) leading us down the road…like Santa and his Sleigh.  I had to stop Buddy from taking his Slingshot out and taking one down with his original Paul Teran custom Slingshot.  Prior to the Canadian Border we stopped at the Davis Dome lookout and spotted a small herd of Caribou (about 7) grazing down below us.  Another awesome site!!!!

Now, we are in the Canadian, Yukon Territory and the road conditions are much better, except they were very narrow with steep drop-offs on both sides, hence “Top of the World”.  It took us about 4 hours to make it over to Dawson City, which by our surprise the highway ended and we had to take a Ferry over the Yukon River. We spent a few hours checking out Dawson, had a picnic lunch on the river and got a new tire for the trailer. We drove another 2 hours and ended up spending the night at the Moose Creek Campground (Dry Camp), got up trailer set up just in time before the rain storm hit.  Once the storm blew over, Buddy got to play with fire, smoke a cigar and enjoyed a few shots of Jim Beam.  We grilled up some of our fresh Salmon and veggies and called it a night.  Going to try and make it to Watson Lake tomorrow, it’s about 605 miles….long drive…we’ll see. Nite all      Sorry pics not uploading again.