Sargent Preston's Hometown

Trip Start Jun 11, 2008

Trip End Jul 05, 2008

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Gold Rush Campground

Flag of Canada Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Monday, June 23, 2008

Monday, June 16, 2008 – We slept in this morning (6:45)! We stopped at a rest stop on the Stewart River and Mickey made breakfast, bacon and eggs. It was good…Mickey was sick of cereal! The Klondike Highway has lupine all along the way. We stopped to take a picture because it reminds us of tulip lane in Holland. We saw our second moose, up close. He was in the middle of the highway! We took pictures as he kept running from our truck…down the middle of the highway!
We made it to Dawson City before 1:00 p.m where we paid $6.46 per gallon for gas. We are staying downtown at Gold Rush Campground. Had a nice walk along the Yukon River that was silty grey and a current of at least 6 knots. The town had a abundance of crooked buildings. It seems that the frost heave affects the older buildings adversely. The Museum was the best of the trip. We gained an appreciation for the hard life and limited success of the miners.
There was one section of the museum that described the life of prostitutes, whose life was as hard as the miners. The ladies did their work in cribs or small cubicles off the back streets legally until the 60's . The window shades being up or down was the sign of amour availability for the next client. Dora a older friend from church used this same method to let her neighbor Margaret know she was still alive. Must be a female communication thing.
Went to Kate’s Cabins and Restaurant for dinner. Mickey had her first crab legs! Headed to the Top of the World Highway tomorrow!
Stats: 189miles; 16.3 gal; 12mpg; 41 mph

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