When you can……..take a tour of beautiful Whitehorse, Capitol of the Yukon. We toured the SSKlondike, a paddle boat used to transport guests and goods during the gold rush. Whitehorse was the end of the railroad and guests and goods were transferred to the paddle boats for transport down the hazardous Yukon River.  The Yukon River is 2,000 miles long with constantly changing weather, sand and gravel bars, and fast moving shallow water. This was the end of the railroad until the 1980’s when a road was built from Haines to Whitehorse and goods were then trucked in. When this happened the trains quit coming this far and the tracks are now used for a  tourist trolly.

We enjoyed dinner at the oldest building in town, Klondike Rib & Salmon BBQ. The building is made from tents left by the military and aluminum sheet siding. I had Halibut and Duf had Elk stew, both were mouth watering delicious! After dinner we walked across the street to The Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue. This show was in an old theatre and the entire experience was like stepping back in time. I wish I could remember some of their hilarious one liners!

We returned home at 11:30 and it was still so light it seemed like noon! The last three days have had 19 hours of daylight with the remaining hours like dusk. Hard to stop moving when it is so light outside. The weather is crazy, it was 90 when we got up and then around 1 it rained and the rain was full of ice chips and the temperature had dropped to 50. One minute it is sunny and warm and the next it is chilly and raining!