Buffalo Along the Alaskan Highway

When we entered Canada on Friday the boarder patrol asked the usual questions and we answered them and then he asked to see our alcohol. He came into the RV, we showed him our two bottles of liquor and one bottle of wine and he sent us on our way. That was the first time anyone came in to check.

We took Highway 8 (nice road) at the Carcross cutoff, which connected us to the Alaskan Highway. We made a fuel stop at Contact Creek, the owner came out and pumped the diesel into the RV. It's been many years since I've seen such service at a gas station. It turns out the owner is from Central Florida too. John was happy to see he had a book exchange and exchanged two books. A good stop.

We've seen eagles, fox, caribou and lots of buffalo. We spent Friday and Saturday nights at rest stops along the ALCAN. 

Leaving Skagway

We were up early to enjoy a less crowded town, took a walk to the town center, taking in our last views of Skagway before packing up the RV and rolling out. 

As we were leaving the valley, driving up the mountain, it started to snow. Looks like we are leaving Alaska just shy of winter taking an early hold.

Skagway, Alaska

Skagway is a cruise port town nestled deep in a valley, surrounded by pristine snow-capped mountains. There were two ships in port today and the restaurants on the main street were pretty crowded so we went off the beaten path by a block and found a gem in the Station Restaurant and Bar. I had a chef salad with a tasty tomato blue cheese dressing, John enjoyed their cheeseburger and fries.

We saw the live theater show of Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, very good show. The can-can dance girls pulled me on stage to participate in the dance-line, it was lots of fun even though I'm far from being ready to join the Rockettes. 

We drove back up Klondike Highway to hike though the beautiful terrain we saw yesterday; then drove out to Carcross Desert and visited the village close by.  When we first arrived in Alaska about 7 weeks ago, we could play in the wilderness late into the night. The sun didn't go down until 11:30 PM. Now you can tell fall is approaching, tonight it started getting darker by 8 o'clock.

Liarsville in Skagway Alaska

What a terrific start to the day, we saw elk, fox, and prairie dogs in the Yukon this morning.

The drive back into Alaska was breath taking, we will go back up their in the jeep tomorrow to explore.

We arrived in Skagway by 1PM and were enjoying a show and salmon bake at Liarsville at 2PM.  Liarsville is set up like an old gold mining town from the 1890's, they present a hoop-dee-doo show that is fun, boisterous, musical entertainment, provided by entertainers in period costumes.

We had a good time and the salmon was delicious!

Alaskan Highway

We ran into some roadwork on the Alaskan Highway that slowed us down a little, but we didn't mind too much since mother nature was putting on a great show with all the Autumn colors. We pulled over to sleep just short of Whitehorse.

We needed to go into Canada to get to Skagway.

Saw this custom, cute RV in the Yukon.

A touch of fall...

We got up early and started to roll. We are headed to Skagway, Alaska. We took Glenn Highway to the Tok Cutoff. You can tell fall is coming, the trees have turned gold, amber, light-orange, and a little bit of red. The bright colors are a nice surprise, we didn't think we would see Autumn colors on this trip.  We ate dinner at Fast Eddies, my favorite thing to order here is the Alaskan hamburger and John loves their meatloaf. We pulled into a reststop just east of Tok to sleep for the night.

Last full day in Anchorage

Our last full day in Anchorage, we went to the BX and the mall to do a little shopping and then walked around downtown. Later, we checked out the salmon fishing in Ships Creek and ended our day with a steak dinner at Texas Roadhouse - we go here often, they grill a good steak.