Day 14 Thursday
Visited Dawson City. Panned for gold at Claim #6. Did not strike it rich. Did not get out of town until almost 1:00pm. Another long day in the truck. Did not get as far as we wanted to. Had hoped to make it to Teslin, but by 8:30 we decided to call it a day and camped at Johnson’s crossing. This was the worse place for mosquitoes so far. They we so thick you could shoot them with a shot gun – that’s what Logan said anyway. They were bad. Luckily before our trip we had bought a screened in easy up just for this reason. We ate a late dinner and all headed for bed hoping to get an earlier start on the next day. I read the day away – “Into the Wild” by John Krakauer, a story about a young lad that thinks he can servive off the wilderness in Alaska, good read - tragic ending - movie was not as good as the book as usual, once I started I couldn’t put it down – read the whole thing in one day.
Visited Dawson City. Panned for gold at Claim #6. Did not strike it rich. Did not get out of town until almost 1:00pm. Another long day in the truck. Did not get as far as we wanted to. Had hoped to make it to Teslin, but by 8:30 we decided to call it a day and camped at Johnson’s crossing. This was the worse place for mosquitoes so far. They we so thick you could shoot them with a shot gun – that’s what Logan said anyway. They were bad. Luckily before our trip we had bought a screened in easy up just for this reason. We ate a late dinner and all headed for bed hoping to get an earlier start on the next day. I read the day away – “Into the Wild” by John Krakauer, a story about a young lad that thinks he can servive off the wilderness in Alaska, good read - tragic ending - movie was not as good as the book as usual, once I started I couldn’t put it down – read the whole thing in one day.
Panning for gold @ claim # 6.
FYI
Dredge @ claim #4. This was a pretty awesome, although the attraction was closed, I am not sure what more we could have seen if it was open. As you can tell Aaron is checking out his strength again and seeing if he could move this rather large chunk of steel.
Robert Service's cabin, a famous author of the Yukon - his most famous poems "Shooting of Dan McGrew" & "The Cremation of Sam McGee" We bought one of his books and read some of his poems out loud during our journery.
Picuture of downtown Dawson.
Another picture of a building in Dawson City, there's grass growing on the roof.
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