Masters of RVing Adventures

We’ve been in several locations throughout the Yukon on this adventure searching for Yukon Cornelius. Most recently in the capital of the Yukon, Whitehorse, where we heard he may have his summer home. Alas, no such luck in spotting him.

Life on the Road

We finally arrived in Whitehorse after leaving Valdez and driving back up to Tok. We spent one night in Toc, waiting on one couple in our group who had a medical issue and had to spend our departure day in the ER in Valdez. All is well, the spouse had heart rate issues as a reaction to some medication. After they caught back up to us, we all headed out to a boondock location near Kluane Lake in the Yukon. No issues going through the border crossing, but another couple lost all of their rig’s underpinning and insulation on the rough roads. He was dragging wires as he pulled off the road for our overnight stop. Mark helped him wire-tie the dangling electrical wires and brake lines to get him to our Whitehorse destination the next day. We too, had an incident, but ours involved Timber. While camped by the lake, Timber caught the freedom bug and bolted from the rig. It took us and one other couple to finally ‘catch’ him, after nearly being hit by an oncoming RV as he darted across the road and up a ridge! Needless to say, we’ve had several busy days!

Whitehorse

We pulled into our campground and everyone exhaled a big sigh of relief. While the rest of our group seamlessly pulled into our slightly tight campsites, someone was overstaying their welcome in our assigned site. After a little back and forth with those campers and the campground manager, a very weary Mark finally was able to get us parked. As a nice surprise, we were able to get the end unit with extra room.

We all had a good night’s rest and recharged for our one full day in Whitehorse. While some went to Wal-Mart and the grocery store, others (the guys) went to the hardware store to purchase needed supplies to fix the underpinning of Bill’s rig. After a very relaxing several hours at the Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs (so far, the nicest hot springs we’ve experienced, including an Eucalyptus steam shower!), the guys got busy working on fixing the rig and several of us ladies went for a walk along the Millennial Trail. An easy walk along the Yukon River, we stopped to see the Whitehorse Rapids Fishladder & Hatchery, the longest wooden fish ladder in the world. It is now closed since Salmon season is over, but they had posted they had a season total of 356 returning Chinook Salmon; however, not knowing the history, we have no idea if that was better or worse numbers than last year.

We also walked along the trail toward downtown to see the S.S. Klondike, one of Canada’s few remaining steam-powered paddlewheelers. Unfortunately, the paddlewheeler is undergoing extensive renovations and was closed to visitors.

Our Last Alaskan Stop – Skagway

We are making our way to the last town on our Alaskan tour agenda. We’ll spend 4 nights in this touristy town before beginning our track down through Canada to the Washington border. (The yellow warning triangle on the map is to alert us of unpaved, perhaps RV unfriendly, roads.)

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