Dawson City Day 2

Day 32, Sunday, 7/19: Bob was up early and a caravan of big RV’s left the park about 6:00 this morning! It seems empty here now as they were parked next to us. It is cloudy but not raining. Bob got the laundry going early (before I got up) and we had breakfast at a little café here in the RV park while we waited for the laundry to dry! They have two guys from France here this summer to cook and we had wonderful crepes with caramelized apples and a nice omelet. Visited with some folks who are on motorcycles heading to Alaska. They are from Alberta and they were interested in the RZR which we had taken to the café. After that Bob worked on one of the camper jacks that had not been working. Looks like it needs a new motor which we will get in Fairbanks or Anchorage. We don’t need it unless we want to unload the camper from the truck and then we could use the manual device. Watched TV and read for a bit, took naps…. Finally this afternoon the sun came out so we decided to take the RZR into ‘downtown’ Dawson City to do some sightseeing. Still lots of folks left from the music festival that has been going on here all week. The tickets cost $160 each! We just walked up and down their main street and drove around a bit. We did visit their very impressive museum. Plan to go back in the morning to a couple of stores to buy ‘stuff’! Didn’t want to pack it home on the RZR… We will be going through town anyway on our way to the ferry. Even though Dawson is a Canadian town it was built by people from the US who were here looking for gold in the late 1800’s. Tomorrow we plan to head to Chicken, Alaska. We read that the town fathers (some miners) wanted to name the town ptarmigan but none of them could figure out how to spell it so they named the town chicken! Thought that was interesting….