Saturday June 26

Today we looked around White Horse a little. The town is large for the area, small for what we are accustomed to. We saw the Klondike a paddle wheels steamer that use to run on the Yukon River. Town was made to look old and western. No buildings were over 3 stories. We headed out and left the Alaskan Highway to take the Klondike Highway to
Dawson City, not to be confused with Dawson Creek. Dawson City was where the Klondike Gold rush started in 1898. This route is also know as the Klondike Loop which takes you across the Top Of The World Highway into Eagle, Alaska. This highway is a 60 mile gravel road run across the ridge line of the mountain range. It is 100 miles longer than staying on the Alaskan Highway but everyone says it is worth it. Me met two couples tonight where we are parked and they said it was one of the prettiest things they had seen in their trip. they are returning from Alaska to Idaho.
We stopped at Montague House for a world famous cinnamon bun. It is 8 or 9 inches in diameter and the advertise it will feed 4. In the morning we will test that. The Montague is an official check in point on the 1000 mile sled dog race.
We stopped at an overlook to take pictures of what is called "5 finger rapids" on the Yukon River. It was a dangerous set of rapids back in the day. Deatra saw some inn where Martha Stewart had done a show.
I saw a brown, grizzly, bear cross the road about 1/4 a mile ahead. He paused beside of the woods to look at us as we stopped in the road. I only got one picture before he departed. Wow!
We stopped long enough at Moose Creek Lodge to take a picture of a wooden model of a giant mosquito. A good 5 foot mosquito.
Finally we stopped at a gravel rest area overlooking Gravel Lake. Again this lake is used by birds in migration. There were two swan, and a bunch of different types of ducks. Ask Deatra for details, they all look alike to me. There are 4 other campers here tonight. I see mosquitoes swarming outside in the sunlight at 10:30. I hope we can keep the out tonight!
Today we drove 282 miles. We drove between 50 and 55 mph all day as we crossed the Dawson Mountain Range. Tomorrow we plan on finishing the 40 miles to Dawson City and spending the day and night there studying the gold rush history. Maybe we will strike it rich!!!!