Wednesday, June 24 (early morning)
From what we understand the road that we are planing to travel today will be the roughest road yet..."like a washboard". We are snugging everything in for a jouncy ride. On the other hand the name of the road is " Top of the World Highway" so we do expect some beauty along the way.
Our time in Alaska is over for awhile. We will cross into the Yukon Territory today and end up in Dawson City, Robert Service territory.
"It's the land... have you seen it?
It's the cussedest land that I know,
From the big dizzy mountains that screen it
To the deep, deathlike valleys below."
from: The Spell of the Yukon
Robert Service was one of my Dad's favorite poets (mine too). The Cremation of Sam MaGee is probably his best known poem.
From what we understand the road that we are planing to travel today will be the roughest road yet..."like a washboard". We are snugging everything in for a jouncy ride. On the other hand the name of the road is " Top of the World Highway" so we do expect some beauty along the way.
Our time in Alaska is over for awhile. We will cross into the Yukon Territory today and end up in Dawson City, Robert Service territory.
"It's the land... have you seen it?
It's the cussedest land that I know,
From the big dizzy mountains that screen it
To the deep, deathlike valleys below."
from: The Spell of the Yukon
Robert Service was one of my Dad's favorite poets (mine too). The Cremation of Sam MaGee is probably his best known poem.
Posted at end of day in Dawson City.
The road was not as bad as I had anticipated...there was some wash-board effects but if you watched the road and picked your path, which is easy to do up high in the Roadtrek, it wasn't so bad. The views were magnificant and the road rough enough that you want to make frequent stops for rest and photos. I picked up some rocks filled with mica, i guess, but I can pretend it's gold from the top of the world.
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