Saturday, July 12, 2014

The Road to Dawson City, Yukon...never again!

Today we left Whitehorse and took the Klondike Highway up to Dawson City. The trip started fine, an ordinary highway, some waterfront scenery...

couple of neat points of interest, the Conglomerate or also called "pudding stone" mountains and the Five Fingers Recreation Site named by early miners for the 5 channels formed by rock pillars...

But soon frost heaves, pot holes, roads down to gravel and construction took over...

A trip that should have taken 6 hours took 8 and then we got to our luxury campground...ahem, parking lot!

And soon it will be a sea of mud because it started to rain pretty darn hard! Well, tomorrow is another day and we are looking forward to touring the 1880's gold rush town of Dawson City. We knew this part of the road would be rough and we expected a parking lot for accommodation, so no surprises...all part of the adventures, we will take it in stride and laugh. For now it's time to get Remy his Thunder Shirt on as this storm is quite a hum dinger, at least it won't be dark and we get 1 hour of wifi free, woohoo!











1 comment:

  1. I recognize that place. I think we were only able to download our mail before our "free" wifi ran out. At least it wasn't raining when we were there. ;-)

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