Friday and Saturday, June 3rd and 4th,
2016 Last Day in Whitehorse End: Ride to
Dawson City, YT
Friday was a down day.
We went into town and I got a print from the same artist I’d chosen back
in 2004 when I was on the Alaska cruise with Dad. We did some gift shopping and had a yummy
lunch at the Deli operated by Yukon Meats.
We bought some soup and had the leftover sandwiches with soup for
dinner. We drove to Miles Canyon
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| Miles Canyon, Whitehorse, Yukon |
then Mike went and played 18 holes of
golf, walking the course, and I updated paperwork, read and cleaned our little
home.
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Saturday we were up and on the road by 7:30 am (Highway 2,
also known as the Klondike Highway) to go to Dawson City, the site of the
discovery of gold and the 1890’s gold rush.
It was a loooong, boring, ride and we had to fight to stay awake. We stopped and got a giant cinnamon bun for sustenance.
The road to Dawson was 313 miles of mostly straight, level highway with aspen
and small pines on either side. Not many
views and no breaks in the monotony. Boy
were we glad to see Dawson City!
We checked in at the Dawson City RV Park and got in the jeep
and explored the town. We visited the
Jack London cabin and museum (he was The Call of the Wild author) who died at 40 and wrote almost as many books.
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| Jack London cabin in Dawson City YT |
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| A Poem of Robert Service on building in Dawson City |
The highlight of our day was going to Midnight Dome. From the top of this mountain you can see 360
degrees to the mountain peaks and valleys that are still yielding thousands of
ounces of gold to this day (41,000 in 2015!).
After coming down from that heady site, we stopped into
Diamond Tooth Gertie’s Casino to pick up some poker chips and watch the can-can
dancers. The picture of the outside was
taken after 9:00 p.m. at night!
We plan
to sleep in on Sunday and explore the Dawson area a bit more.
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