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Published: October 1st 2008
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 for this Yukon experience and to receive a certificate. On Monday we visited the Danoja Zho Cultural Center and joined a walking tour of the Dawson Historical Complex led by a costumed interpreter. This National Historic Site of Canada consists of over two dozen buildings located in the downtown of this living community including the cabins of author Jack London and poet Robert Service.
No visit to Dawson is complete without a stop at Diamond Tooth Gertie's,the local casino that has a stage show three times a night during the summer months. All proceeds go back to
the community. We made our contribution and returned to our hotel. The next day we were scheduled to take an eight tour bus ride from Dawson to Whitehorse following the route of the Overland Trail but the day before a severe rainstorm had washed out part of the road and instead Holland America flew us to Whitehorse.
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