Gakona Lodge & Trading Post Tok

... Fairbanks to see a doctor.

We went for a ride around some of the back roads near camp and went to some gift shops. The clerk at one of them directed us to look around the side of the shop where three Husky puppies were for sale. They were darling! Sorry, no pictures of the pooches. I can't waste precious disk space on such frivolity. There are so many more worthwhile things to photograph ...

... and lots of fireweed down the roadside hills.




The Sourdough Campground has nice camp spots; lots of trees. Had their dinner—reindeer chili and corn chowder in a sourdough bread bowl. The bread was wonderful but there wasn't enough of ...

... Ken.

We called Jessica to let her know we would be in tomorrow and also talked to a very excited Riley who asked, “Grandma, are you in your trailer?” When they were with us in Texas, Riley enjoyed going out to the trailer on the hundreds of trips it took to load up. Yes, having a shadow slowed down the process but the enjoyment was spending time with her. .

Tomorrow will be a long drive – 325 miles. Jessica will ...

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We continued on through Burwash landing which is just a blip in the road and home to the Southern Tutchone people of the Kluane Indians (Kluane First Nation). They built a trading post here in the early 1900s and essentially that is the only business today. Beaver Creek was the next small town that we passed ...

... rest. Felt good! Tomorrow we are going to Chicken. Monday we will probably head toward Fairbanks. It sure is beautiful here! The weather has been great as well. It appears my e-mails are not going out. I am receiving them OK though. It is a Charter issue, thought I had it fixed before we left. Hope all is well back home. More later!

... had a beautiful sunset. As we prepared for bed Warren came in and said he thought we were going to see northern lights. Back outside to stand with our necks craned to see the display that seemed just for us. To the naked eye, the lights appeared faint and white. I wasn't able to get pictures with my camera but Warren did. The lights, to the camera, were actually green. Absolutely astounding and another checkmark off my list of things to see in Alaska.

... tops holding back one of the largest non-polar ice fields in the world. Our first stop was the Kluane National Park visitor center. Kluane, combined with the Wrangell - St. Elias National Park in the US, is the largest protected wilderness area on earth. The mountains are still growing and we learned that there are over a thousand "seismic events" a year here including ...

... belt. In fact he has a '95 Road King with over 100k miles on it. Anyway the point is, Bob had many touring tid-bits he shared with me. But the one tid-bit that really got my attention was that even though he preferred a tent he used a queen-sized air mattress to sleep on. That's right boys and girls, a QUEEN size complete with fitted sheets. In fact he blew the thing up with a DC powered ...

... waiting for the pilot car, (they have a pilot car at road works to escort you through if there is one lane closed, it has flashing lights and a big sign written "Follow Me" Of course rick doesn't help his fellow passengers when he breaks into song" Follow me I'm the pied piper, follow me....." " gee don't you love the 60's music !" lol if you are old enough to know it! We pulled into Beaver creek the last Canadian "town" before crossing the border. We ...

... to the dogs, I went to the main stage of the campground to have dinner and watch and ol' time country music concert put on by a local band. Though I'm not a big country music fan, I did enjoy the concert, especially when they played some Jonny Cash. The dinner was some of the best food I've had all trip. For $10 you get a sourdough bread bowl filled with reindeer chili and a piece of home baked pie. I wish we could stay another day just for the meal and ...