Whitehorse to Dawson City

Off to the store to buy more netting to stop those bugs, this is a whole one piece ensemble, not a seam anywhere they can get in.....and all for $12

This is one of those self portraits and I am not playing Carmac the mindreader I am showing you one of the dozen 2 inch welts on my head alone from the mosquitoes

I've got to tell you that earlier Rainier was pointing at the front passenger mudflap, looked at me and then looked back at the mudflap, sniffed and looked at me and snorted, like, don't you get it? I didn't get it, but he wouldn't let up, I found a large propane leak in the regulator at the propane tank, he could smell it on the ground but I couldn't. Don't know how it will be repaired, it is not a leak you can tighten up, we are across the street from the Dawson City RV repair place so we'll take it there on Monday

I don't even leave my seat, just lean forward and Gracie is in it, if she could read The Milepost I'd be out of a job

This is the farthest northwest that pine trees grow, too cold for them after this, I didn't know that pine trees take the heat of a fire to open up their pine cone, so that they can get their seed out

Called five fingers rapids on the Yukon, these steps take you a mile down to the river

See the line of white in the soil, it is white volcanic ash, they don't know what happened to the moutain that erupted, maybe in a glacier somewhere, but they use the layer to date anything that they dig up

I kept seeing this sign and it looked to me like the Titanic was going down and people were falling off the deck backwards, so, whenever we'd see it we'd yell,

"It's the Titanic"

I've seen a picture of this from an airplane and it looks better than this but it's the best I could do, The Yukon

This bridge connected Dawson Creek with Whitehorse in 1951 and ended the paddlewheeler's on the river

The Yukon River is gorgeous, the 3rd largest river in the world, or maybe that's longest, it's easy to imagine the paddlewheelers coming up the river. OK, it's the 3rd longest and largest in North America, 20th largest in the world

We saw many different years of forest fires, always a sign to tell you that this was the 1969 fire

Frost swells under the road in the winter leave a roller coaster ride in the summer

We have not seen anyone else with one of these on their rigs but lots of people have asked about it, maybe someone should come up here and sell them, they work great

We saw much more work on the road the farther north we went, maybe and eighth of the road we travelled on today was gravel

This says that if you are lucky that you can see a rarely seen American Coot, heck I used to see them all the time at work

This trench is a major migratory route for most of the birds that come to the Yukon but it is also where the major earthquake fault line is, they say that the shift in the layers of earth is what brought the gold, silver and copper up so that it could be discovered here, also, a major earthquake made voids in the earth in this area and changed the direction of flow for the Yukon, it used to flow south to Alaska, and now it flows north to the Bearing Sea

Chipseal not asphalt road

These are the roads that you hear about, washboard, gravel, shake you to death, we ran into two sections of this, close to Dawson City, but remember this is the Klondike Road not the Alcan

We finally make it to Dawson City, took us 8 hours, but we still have hours of daylight left