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I started the day by having breakfast in this cool little diner at the junction
of the Alcan and the South Yukon Hwys. Then I headed south to Skagway.
First I passed Emerald lake and it is really Blue. then I came to the old
Venus Mill. This was way cool! Across the White Pass and in to Alaska at
last! 49 states down, one to go. The road in to Skagway is intense, I cant
even imagine having to haul one ton of stuff up it as the miners had to
do. Unfortunately when I got to Skagway there were 4 cruse ships in port
and the town was jammed. I grabbed some lunch and met a guy who was
interested in the brush guard on my truck, He lived in western Alaska and
was looking for a good bar for his truck. I noticed he had on a princess
cruise line badge and I asked how
he liked the cruse, I was surprised an Alaskan was on one. He said the
same as always. I was a little confused by his comment, He saw this and then told me that he was the pilot for the inside
passage and did this all summer, what a cool job. I poked around Skagway some but
it was to crowded so I headed across the bay to the old site of Dyea but
there wasn't much there to see so back to Skagway where I checked out the
Cemetery, I then decided that I should head out and try to revisit Skagway
on the way back home. I drove up to Whitehorse and had no problem
passing through customs on the way back. in fact the Canada customs guys
and I talked about guns for a few minutes while traffic backed up about 15 cars
deep behind me. I pulled in to the truck stop in Whitehorse and got a
shower and then to the Wal Mart to sleep amongst the RV'rs there. I pulled
in and parked and then looked at the pickup in front of me and I
just started laughing, There were Denny and Helen again! it was 1:30 am
and not dark at all as yesterday was the summer solstice. |
