Made it to Whitehorse

The four of us spent 3 nights in Dawson City at the Bonanza Gold RV park.  Wifi was limited to 20MB a day and Abby and I got kicked off for a full day because we exceeded our limit the second day.  In addition, we had no cell phone coverage.  ATT sucks in Canada!

Ken and Debbie spent a day going through the old gold mines and dredging operations and Ken was trying to file a mining claim while Debbie was trying to buy gold nuggets.

Abby and I spent most of Thursday putting our RV and jeep back together after the trip on the "Top of the World" road. 

Fortunately the RV park had a pressure washer so I was able to confirm our jeep is really gray and not brown.  After that was cleaned up, Abby and I drove downtown to walk through the various shops.  While we were driving down main street I noticed everybody was turning to watch us.  I didn't understand why until I rolled down the window.  I could then hear a screeching coming from the left front wheel.  We had a stone trapped between the disk brake and the shield and I couldn't break it lose.

We did manage to find some time to walk through the streets downtown.  We stopped in the Jack London Bar and Grill for a brew and while we were there met an interesting couple.  Wayne and Shirley live in British Columbia and were on vacation.  Wayne is a truck driver who drives the same roads as the "Ice Road Truckers" on the Discovery Channel.  It was interesting to listen to his stories. I can't imagine driving these roads in the winter.

As we walked down a street we came upon a TV series being filmed.  It is called the "Murdoch Mysteries".  It is a series about the wild west in Canada.

It is shown in Canada and on PBS in the U.S.  It was really interesting to watch how many times they had to film a scene. 

The streets of Dawson City are right out of an old western cow town.  The problem they had was one time a car came driving through, another a bicycle was ridden through the set, another time a diesel pickup truck was so loud driving through town it drowned out the audio. (double click the picture and you can see the car driving through).

Dawson City has a large contingent of New Zealander's living in the area.  Many were extras in the TV series.  Abby thought he was cute.  I don't see the attraction.

After dinner Ken got his jack and tool box and removed the tire and brake assembly and managed to remove the stone. Much wine was consumed by all that night in appreciation for a job well done.

Yesterday we had time to enjoy the downtown area some more.  For lunch we stopped in our favorite pub and who did we run into but Wayne and Shirley!  They told us we had to see the show at "Diamond Tooth Gerty's".  It is a Can Can show and Casino.  We drove back to the RV park and told Ken and Debbie about the show. 

We met about an hour before the show in the Casino for drinks.

It was everything Wayne and Shirley said it was.  Who did we see again at the show?  Wayne and Shirley!  They liked it so much they went a second night.  They had decided not to drive the Top of the World and spent another day in Dawson City before heading home.

We left Dawson City this morning in a continuous drizzle.  Our intention was to spend the night in Carmacks YT and then drive to Whitehorse Sunday.  The drive went so well we decided to continue on to Whitehorse where we are spending the night.  Tomorrow we will drive to Skagway, AK and spend a couple of days.