We left Chicken and traveled over the Top Of The World Highway to Dawson in the Yukon.  I was like a hundred and forty miles of dirt road.  It was about nine thirty when we come down off the tops of the mountains and we came around a curve to the Yukon river and the road with no signs or warnings ended at the river bank. If you were not watching you could have drove into the river.  The ferry soon pulled up and took us across the river to Dawson.  As you can see the ferry needs no landing or dock.  It's ran by the Government  It held eight cars or semi's with cars or what ever they can put on.  It's free.  The next day we walked the water front and rode over and back on the ferry. 

This is Dawson from Dome Mountain.  The muddy river is the Yukon and I can't remember the other.  The clear water river was where gold was discovered and the canyons and rivers has all been dredged with several dredges like the one up at Sumpter.  One of them is the biggest in North America.

Halfway up to Dome Mt. was the city cemetery.  There must be several thousand or more people buried
there.  About a third of it was organized and the rest like this just spread out over the hills.  Very interesting to walk through and see the names and dates.  They had a small section for the Canadian Mounted Police. 

This is Dawson, dirt streets, board sidewalks, old buildings, old house, all painted.  New buildings that look old.  A lot of the stores look on the inside much the way they might have a hundred years ago.  Sometimes you walk in and the floor slopes so much you have to step up or down just to walk across the floor.  We saw no police anywhere in Dawson.  Out side and across the street at an old turn of the century saloon people was sharing drugs with no fear.  Even with that you were very safe as the people are the nicest. 

We stopped to watch this goat.  It was walking across a vertical hillside.  Makes you wonder how they hang on.  The baby goat had no problems at all.  This day we had two different black bears walk across in front of us out in the middle of nowhere but by the time I stopped to keep from hitting them and getting the camera I only got one butt shot off.  Its just so neat to see the in the wild with just you there and no one else and so close to them.  They will pass with in  feet of you but they will not stop.  Maybe a good thing they don't.   

Mom literally could have leaned out the window and touched this young moose.  In another picture it stuck its tongue out at us.  We saw so many animal this day it was like a zoo with no other people around. 

We got to Grande Prairie about six and we found a place and ate and then we played golf, score thirty eight to thirty five.  Mom won.  Ya. Then we went and got ice cream.  Hows that for ending a day.  We left Dawson and made it to Whitehorse where we slept in the tent.  Mom's shower even have live flowers growing everywhere in the showers.  Cool.  We drove for five hours and ran into smoke from a fire so we stopped at a RV place.  The had water tanks like kids swim pools but much bigger with pumps and hoses that went to all the roofs with sprinklers on them.  Some of the road was shut down.  We slept in the car that night and the next night.  We got a room at the Holiday Inn at Grande Prairie and went to Church there today.  Were now is Edmonton at a Hilton Hotel for two nights.  Lots to do and see here.  They have the largest mall in North America and many other things to do and see. I must mention that people in Canada and especially Alaska and the Yukon  are so friendly.  They talk to you like they have known you all their lives.  At one RV place we sat around a fire and talked for hours.  Really cool how open people are.  Every church we've been to is the same.  Today an old man came an took me to Priesthood with him.  We went more than a week with out phone service but everywhere you camp there is WIFI, even out in your tents.  A lot of the places don't have electricity so they have to generate there own.  The town of Chicken out in the middle of now where had a WIFI for the whole town so the children could have their school which was over the net.  You can always find a satellite dish.  This has been a great experience which is far from being over since we still have to cross Canada to Minnesota before coming home.  We may do a side trip around Manitoba lake before coming back to the States.