Wednesday, July 25, 2007


Well, after checking out beautiful, downtown Chicken....we stepped into the cafe....one of 3 buildings, and had a good lunch. The burgers were usual, but they had homemade cherry, blueberry and apple pies. Then, with caravans coming in town, by the dozens, we loaded up and left for Dawson City.

We took the Top of the World Highway....which, by the way, really felt like the top of the world. A gravel, slow, very dusty, narrow road. We have dust in the Hummer, 1/4 inch deep.....and the windows were rolled up! It took us about 6 hours to go a little over 100 miles......But, all in all, not awful.

When we finally made it to West Dawson... we had to take a small ferry across the river, to the main part of town.A LITTLE SCARY! When Jimmy drove on...then boat lowered about a foot! Then I followed in the Hummer, and 2 more pick ups with campers....then, we were full! The ferry pushes away from the shore and the river takes over pushing us downriver......then the ferry has to really power up the river, to the other side!

We drove through town to the RV park ( if you want to call it that) and passed some cute stores.....The Dog House....Jimmy's....., now, Jimmy is cooking some burgers and brats on the grill. Tomorrow, we move to a different RV, with 50 amp power, so I can do some laundry (yea!). We'll probably stay here a day or 2 before moving on to Whitehorse.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

WOW.. THAT FERRY SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS A SCARY SITUATION.. THANK GOD ALL WENT WELL... YOU LOOK CUTE IN YOUR CHICKEN..PICTURE.. I HAVE GIVE YOU HIGH PRAISE FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO PUTTING YOU CURRENT MEMORIES FOR ALL TO ENJOY.. THANK YOU.. Lynette