Whitehorse, Tok, Chicken, Dawson, Arctic Circle

This is in Whitehorse

We toured the steam wheel boat the Klondike which was very interesting and cool (Sabrina is helping me write this)

We walked up a nice path in Whitehorse to the fish ladder ... not sure who the third girl is but wanted to show the Chinook Salmon :) male with hook

Female with round mouth

On our way to Destruction Bay

I'm driving yay!

Good beer made in Whitehorse brewer  slogan was 'Beer worth freezing for'

Girls loved the clay so did I it was pottery 101

Beautiful place

Road or what they call a main road

This is the main highway in the Yukon ....

Fires quite common in the area due to thunder storms with little rain.

Hotel in Tok the Young's Motel not very impressed the pamphlet describes itself as modern but our room was out of the 70s probably because we have the dog with us, cost 107$ but was clean.  The restaurant Fast Eddy's is great - good, well priced food.

Chicken fun little town 4 residents in the winter! 

Looking for gold

We panned out little flakes of gold it was fun

Caribou very exciting we even saw a heard of about 5 run in the ditch and take off into the woods

On the way back it was a different story hunting season opened in the States very busy and gross you could see where they were shot and there intestines were left 

This is Top of the World highway kind of scary road very slippery from Tok to Dawson

Huge drop off

REALLY

Pictures of buildings down town Dawson

Notice no pavement the side walks are wooden, but when it rains there is mud everywhere

Deck from our hotel room in Dawson very cute spot called Whithouse, room had a double bed and 2 singles perfect for the girls first time in 5 weeks they had there own bed :)

It was $170 a night a bit expensive but I would recommend it clean and comfortable.   They also had cool tent  rooms in the back worth checking out but no dog allowed in the tents.

Well there it is and we had to try 

No emergency services available

Beautiful

I love the colour of the valleys 

You can see for miles and miles

Notice the change half of the mountain  is shale rock the other side has vegetation

Then all shale rock

Engineer Creek has a red colour due to the minerals in it, sheep often come down to drink for the minerals but we did not see any BUT... 

We saw a grizzly on the side of the road very exciting 

It rained ... not good the roads become very slippery about 100km from Eagle Plain hotel we hit a section of road with about a half a foot of loose gravel it would pull the car and it would fish tail ...  Bob was able to keep it on the road :)

Love this place, Eagle Plain Hotel and Restaurant the dog was welcome everywhere.  We stayed the night and exchanged stories with other travelers.  In someways we were lucky, the transports were grounded due to the rain  which was one less hurdle out on the road.  They called for snow on Thursday so we decided to go to the arctic circle and head on back Northwest Territories will have to wait for another time.

Next day a bit of rain but not bad roads much better they had been graded

 Small Black spruce trees

We made it, we were so thrilled!!!

 Met a wonderful couple from Anchorage, Sandy the lady gave us this wonderful book full of coupons - this will be very helpful during our tour of Alaska.

Returned to Dawson and found this gem.  Kate's cabins are wonderful.  Two queen size beds (has a variety of different sizes of beds) clean, best shower yet.  Cost 140$ very friendly people even gave us more internet when we used up our quota.   Their restaurant seems to be 'the place' in town very busy with fancy cuisine.

Kate's Cabins

Today we drove back to Tok, Top of the World highway was fine.  We are staying at Snowshoe Motel a very nice place two rooms with a bathroom in between.  Clean and a good price 115$ tried to get picture to up load not working the wifi is so slow
Miss the rv, Bob and I are trying to decide if we should go back and get it ... or keep going without it ... there are pros and cons to each.