We’re here in Whitehorse (the capital of the Yukon Territory); arrived on Friday. Some parts of the drive were very nice.
But once we got here the weather went downhill quickly.
I decided to check the future road conditions and the customs office along
the Top of the World Road which we were going to take to get into Alaska after
a few days visit in Dawson City (if you watch the TV show Gold Rush, that is
where most of the gold mining takes place). Thank god I did, Nope – Not
Happening.
It turns out that there was record flooding in Dawson City (our next planned stop) due to ice jams previously followed by melting snow and record rain on the Yukon River, so the border crossing and road (which requires a short ferry ride across the river) are shut down.
Credit – CBC News
Credit CTV News
Rather than redo all the campground reservations, here we sit (with a few other folks in the same boat) in cold and rainy Whitehorse, re-routing to drive up the Alaskan Highway to Tok, AK (which would have been our return route). We’ll leave on Wednesday for a couple of overnights along the way. Meanwhile, most of the cool things here to see are closed atm, and of all places – the Starlink internet here is shaky (I’m having difficulty posting the pics for this, but we did get to see the Celtics take Game 6!). We couldn’t even get Sirius in the car when we were driving around.
Incredible erosion along the Takhini River.
But someone is happy with his stick:)
Even with our longer stay we can’t find an RV tech to fix the problems we are having that remain after they were supposed to be fixed by the manufacturer, there are four businesses here and they are all booked. Meanwhile, we have the sous vide cooking some prime steak and we’re warm in our little traveling house.
3 For the Road 