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By Sylvan
August 24th 2008

Dawson, Yukon

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Dawson

Sunday August 24 - Tuesday August 26 The Canadian immigration and Customs officials boarded the Yukon Queen ll in Dawson to stamp our passports. After checking into our hotel and a short walk around town we stopped at the Sourdough Saloon in the Downtown Hotel for beer, wings and onion rings. This is the home of the Sour Toe Cocktail, your drink of choice with a real petrified toe in it while the keeper of the toe recites: “You can drink it fast You can drink it slow but your lips must touch the toe.” People were lined up to pay [View Full Entry]

By lzthompson
August 12th 2008

Panning for Gold and Trying our luck

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big SS Klondike
Even Laura doesn't have enough hot air to move this baby

Drove about 8 hours to get from Whitehorse to Dawson City yesterday. We camped for a bargain $12 at a Yukon Government Campground amid the tiny little nasty bugs and a bit of rain. After trying for about 40 min to make a fire with wet wood, and cooking our dinner (Sauages) on it, we decided to call it quits and head into the tent. It was the weirdest thing - 11pm at night and the sun was still in the sky. We kept waiting for it to get darker - but it never really did. AFter about an hour of [View Full Entry]

By AlexundGeorg
July 14th 2008

sonne nonstop...

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ich glaub ich steh´ im (schilder)-wald (in watson lake)

hallo ihr lieben, haben eben mit erschrecken feststellen müssen, dass ihr nun fast drei wochen auf diesen eintrag warten musstet...die zeit vergeht wie im fluge. hier erst einmal das neueste: wir kommen wieder nach hause, und zwar am 22. november! also, man sieht sich schon bald wieder. seit dem letzten bericht haben wir mal wieder viel erlebt. den alaska highway sind wir von fort nelson aus noch bis watson lake im yukon territory gefahren. danach haben wir dann einen weit abenteuerlicheren weg gewählt, und zwar den campbell highway, der bis carmacks geht. dieser sogenannte highway ist e [View Full Entry]

By Crannster
July 4th 2008

up close and personal--glaciers, Chicken, and a dead toe.

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bike trail bridge
Fairbanks, Alaska

July 4th 2008 Happy Belated Canada Day!!!! We hope everyone has enjoyed their long weekend off enjoying Canadian things to do! Our story continues...in Fairbanks, Alaska, a lovely city of 80,000ish people (more than the total people who live above latitude 60 in the whole of Canada). We wandered through the Museum of the North where there were great displays of wildlife, native culture and the ice age. They had two interesting replicas of frozen ice age animals found in Alaska, a baby wooly mammoth and a bison, dated to about 30,000 years ago. We browsed the art gallery and found [View Full Entry]

By JohnBroomhall
June 27th 2008

Dawson City and on to Alaska

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Dawson from the air

We left Whitehorse on Monday morning in a steady rain, and the temperature was only about +8. The rain would last all the way to Pelly Crossing, about 300 kilometers. At times the clouds were right down to highway level. Needless to say, the visibility was poor and we didn't see too much scenery other than the forests along side of the road. It has been interesting at least to see how the trees are becoming smaller as we travel north. Given the extend of the rain, I managed to stay mostly dry, with the exception of my feet. My new [View Full Entry]

By Carolyn Dave
May 27th 2008

Whitehorse to Dawson City

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Beautifully Carved Bench
Carved into the seat are the words "Top of the Life Bench"

Renew, refreshed and rejuvenated we left Whitehorse behind, headed a short way down the Alaska Highway and turned onto the Klondike Loop Trail toward Dawson City. This route was the path less traveled, as we saw only a handful of other vehicles all day. We traveled through the Yukon River Valley and enjoyed great views of the Yukon, especially at an area called Five Finger Rapids. The lakes along the highway were plentiful and extremely scenic. There were several areas which we found worth noting. First was the strange shape of the landscape. The hills almost looked like mounds of l [View Full Entry]

Actual working weathervane at the airport

Getting off Alaska Highway and heading up the Klondike

By 24TheRoad
August 26th 2007

North Pole, Top of the World Highway, Dawson City and other fun places

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Golf at Top of the World

North Pole We left Fairbanks and headed southeast to the North Pole. No not THE North Pole but the town in Alaska named North Pole. Of course there is a Christmas theme to the town. We noticed even a welding company had gigantic candy canes as part of the entrance to the company. Items that are mailed from this town are postmarked “North Pole.” Delta Junction This was our next stop. We took pictures by the marker for the end of the Alaska Highway, so now we have a picture at each end. We had planned to have dinner at [View Full Entry]

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