Alaska Trip: Tuesday 7/23/13

Tonight will be our last night in Dawson City. What an interesting town. No paved roads, old buildings and a sun that never seems to set. Right now it's light for 20 hours of the day. Yesterday we went to see a dredge that was used to mine gold. Quite an undertaking, getting the parts from Ohio to the Yukon and then assembling it outside of Dawson City. This morning we went to a place called "The Midnight Dome". It's an area high above Dawson City where you can see the northern lights at midnight. Unfortunately that happens in the winter time when it's dark most of the time so we won't get to see them. Tomorrow we head to Chicken, Alaska. All of the RVs will use the ferry to cross the Yukon River. The ferry can accommodate only two RVs at a time, so it will be slow going to get all of us across the river. There really isn't an alternative as it is quite a long distance to go around. We will be traveling along the "Top of the World" highway. This is a rugged narrow partially gravel road. So it will be slow going for about 45 miles. The trip will be a total of 109 miles. We are having a chicken hat contest in honor of arriving in Chicken. This trip has been interesting, educational and a lot of fun. I'm sure that I have left out a number of things we've seen or experienced. One sad note, traveling to Dawson City on Sunday, we saw a young bear that apparently just got hit by a car going in the other direction. The bear was laying in the southbound lane and as I passed it it sat up and then laid back down.
I'm going to try and attach some photos of the last few days.