Sitting in the Whitehorse airport typing up this final post for the Alaska blog. What a great 3 weeks it has been! We’ve seen and done all that we’d hoped for and in truth....probably exceeded most of those hopes too.
After arriving very very late in Skagway (3 a.m.) we toured that picturesque little town sans people. It was great to be able to see it that way as from all that we’ve heard it is CRAZY during daytime hours! There are on average 6 cruise ships coming into Skagway every day of the week and so you can imagine how many people would be walking around the town. We also learned that there are only two properties left in the town of Skagway that don’t belong to the cruise lines! Wow! What a monopoly they have! We spent the night at a place called 7 pastures which is really just a little park where they play ball that is right on the edge of town. The price was right (free) and we were just happy to have a place to park and sleep for a bit. It had been a LONG day but a good one.
In the morning we made our way north to the Canadian border and as always it is a good feeling to be back “home”. From the border it was about an hour to Carcross where we checked into the General Store which is the oldest general store still operating in BC. As it happens the owners of that store are the parents of a young woman (Annie) who is the girlfriend of the nephew of a friend of mine. Sounds a bit convoluted but when you’re in the north in a tiny little out of the way place like carcross you gotta take advantage of connections. The O”conners (and Annie) were very happy to meet us and us them. What an interesting little spot!
We also had a bite to eat in Carcross (we hadn’t had any breakfast and it was already lunch time so....the Bistro was a much welcomed stop for both of us. Bison burgers and elk sausage were on the menu so of course we decided to give them a go. Both were delicious!
From Carcross it was off to see my friends in Tagish which is where we spent the night. Before it was time to call it a night though we had a great visit and a fantastic meal of moose steak with all the trimmings. Delicious! Kelly (my friends husband) had just taken a fresh lake trout out of the smoker as well so that was a perfect appetizer for our meal. While we sat down on the beach in front of their cabins in Tagish we even were entertained by a porcupine waddling his way along the beach on the other shore. It was hot! 35 degrees and not much cloud cover so it was hard to believe this is the far north!
After a good night sleep we were off to Whitehorse to return our RV and get to the airport for our flight today. On that front there isn’t much to tell except that we saw another porcupine along the road coming in to Whitehorse this morning. Who knew there were so many porcupine here?! Not me!
RV checked in all good and we were about 600 km over our limit so we had a little bill to pay but heh....it was worth the extra miles to be able to see and do all that we did. Yes....that means we travelled a total of 4200 km in total in the last 3 weeks and not only did we survive but we thrived in this frontier land. What a great adventure!
Until the next one....
Lorrie and Lynda
Ps
Lynda just commented on my many talents......pumping, dumping, typing......LOL. I won’t miss the pumping and dumping! For those of you who haven’t used an RV that references the cleaning of the sewage tanks in the RV.
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