Homer Alaska

It has been a while since have had WiFi to be able to post
We are in Homer Alaska and our tour is winding down we only have two more days and the tour is over
Let me see if I can bring you up to speed so this might be a little long
Last heard we were waiting to see if the road would be fixed so we could go on to Chicken Alaska WELL!! it didn't happen WE wait a day and the road was still closed and that meant a back track trip to get over to Tok Alaska so we could travel on to Fairbanks that meant 700 miles instead of 180 miles we did get to Fairbanks
In Fairbanks we took a River boat Trip and Susan Butcher's Dinner which was very good We saw the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, North Pole and Santa Land and many other places
We left Fairbanks to head to Denali Park We took a bus trip into the park and saw a mother Grizzly bear and her two cubs we saw a pair of Lynx many Caribou, Mountain Sheep and the biggest was that mother nature cooperated and we saw both North and South Peaks of Mt. McKinley Did a little skit about our tour, Don got to play Spike our tour leader The skit brought on some laughs even form Spike it was his birthday and we celebrated with the skit and cupcakes
On to Anchorage where we had sometime to catch our breath and do some much needed work like washing clothes, the car and the Motorhome as it rained a lot and both were filthy
We had a great time site seeing around Anchorage and very good dinner at the Sourdough Mining Co and Chocolate Factory where they have a seventeen foot chocolate waterfall They claim the largest in the world
It has rained a lot but it has still fun
We are in Homer and Don went Halibut fishing he caught his limit two Nyla went site seeing and shopping with friends the Gunns and Margi Brown
now you are up to speed until next posting

We left Skagway and what we thought would be a beautiful drive and a lot of photo-ops turned out to be foggy drive and no pics
For lunch we stopped at Michelle Phillips Last years Iditirod winner We had a nice chicken lunch After we ate we visited the kennel and all the dogs some of our group took a ride on a wagon pulled by a team of ten dogs
Then it was back on the road to Whitehorse where we stayed three nights We saw a fish ladder they are made so the Salmon can get by a dam We saw the Yukon River where all headed north would travel on boats we toured a stern wheeler paddle boat that once was used for travel from Whitehorse to the gold fields in Dawson City We had a steak dinner and watched a slid show put on by Michelle Phillips and we went to the Frantic Follies Vaudeville Show
We moved on to Dawson City where we are now Dawson has a lot of mining history as this is where gold was first discovered and started the rush to the Yukon for gold We went to the location where the first gold was found and we did some panning for gold between Nyla and I we have about 12 to 15 flakes I think we would starve to death if we had to rely on gold panning for a living
It rained here yesterday and our road to Chicken Alaska was washed out so we are waiting to hear if we will be moving on tomorrow
Our trip out of here ought to be fun as we have to travel on a Ferry to cross the river to continue on to Chicken

Skagway

Since we left Hyder we have been on one night stops at Dease Lake, Watson Lake, and Teslin On Friday the 2ND of July we traveled to Skagway where we are for four nights
Last night the 3RD they did there fire works and we had a nice show The RV park we are staying in is between town and the harbor where they fired off the fire works and we are looking out at the harbor
The town is about a block or so from the RV park It is a nice small town with quite a bit of history This is where the gold miners left from to find their fortune of gold in the Yukon very few found their fortune The struggle was hard as the were required to take a ton of supplies with them up a very steep trail called the Chilkoot Trail
Weather has been cool here and cloudy most of the day and a little rain most every day
They had a 4TH of July Parade today and a lot of games for the kids There was only one cruise ship in port today and not many people went in to town
We are having a great time and seeing a lot of beautiful country Road are two lanes and a little narrow We have had some gravel roads but they are in pretty good shape
That is about it from the north our next move will be to Whitehorse on Tuesday