20 May – Heading to Gold Country

Good nights sleep in Whitehorse.

Emptied the waste tanks and filled the fresh water tank while at the RV Park. There is a small Walmart in Whitehorse, so we went down there to stock up. As we passed the Whitehorse Airport, a 737 was just getting ready to depart, So, of course, John had to stop and watch that.

 

While sitting in the Walmart parking lot, another Toyhouse Dolphin pulled up beside us.  Talked to Dave the owner for a little while and showed him the inside of our Toyhouse.  He has a 85 that has the bed in the back. You rarely see one Toyhouse, but two of them, in the same place, it was drawing attention from everyone who walked by.

We departed Whitehorse heading to Dawson City.  Turned off the Alaska Highway and onto the Klondike Highway heading north.

Most of the day was a very high thin overcast, not enough to let the sun shine, but no rain. Stopped by a couple places to look at to maybe stay overnight.

Drove past several burned out areas, The forest fires areas were marked with signs of when the fires occurred, I think the oldest we seen was 1953, and the newest was 2004.  All the areas seem to be recovering. It looks like it takes about 20 years for things to really start regrowing again.

We continued on into Dawson City and then went out to the Gold Mining site.  This area has extensive history of gold mining back in the late 1800’s, early 1900’s and has the original “Klondike” floating dredge on display.

 

The local Klondike Historical Society maintains a mining  claim along the creek and allows visitors to “Pan for Gold” on the claim. We stopped there and while I tried my luck, Jodie made us a spaghetti dinner.  She had better luck than I, the Spaghetti was good, and there was no gold today.

We back tracked and set up camp at one of the providential (state park) campgrounds (Klondike River),  No hookups but quite, and firewood provided, and plenty of Mosquitoes.  We put up the awning, started a fire and sat outside for a couple hours.

At bedtime, (10:30pm) the sun was still up. We put up the window blinds and hit the sack anyway. Although the sun set, it never got dark, About 3am it was a “twilight” kind of what you get just before the sun pops above the horizon.

HOUSEKEEPING

I was having problems getting the Frig to light on LP, so when I went out to look, I had Jodie press the pilot button, I noticed the whole cooling coil unit moved about 1.4 inch.  I found a stripped out screw that holds the cooling unit to the back of the frig,  I installed two screws (one on each side of the bracket) and that solved the problem. Now when I press the pilot button, I get a distinct click and the frig lights right up.

Sleeping, one photo shows the bed made up and ready for a nights sleep,  the other shows how the bed is stowed and ready to drive.

Mileage >> 343  Average mpg 16.2

John & Jodie

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