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The ferry operates 24 hours a day, free of charge, while the river is thawed. In the winter, there is an ice road across. Our tour guide said she d lost 3 vehicles in the river over the years! She said you get them all back and pulled out of the water, but it is really embarrassing!
Many people compare the Top of the World Highway to the Dempster, but there really wasn t too much of a comparison. It is called the Top of the World highway because it follows the tops of the hills and peaks. A large portion of the road was under construction and the road was rough, but it wasn t too bad. The scenery is nice, just no where near as spectacular as the Dempster.
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Until recently, when a new gas station and RV park opened in Chicken, Chicken was without flush toilets, without electricity, without phone service, and without the internet! Yet still a dozen or so people choose to live there!
We crossed back into Canada before the little town of Beaver Creek, Yukon. It was a pretty hotels in daytona beach florida sparse little place. We stopped at a motel to fill up at their gas pump and the guy seemed startled, almost like we were the first people he d seen in a week
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Further down the Alaskan Highway (yes, the Alaska Highway cuts through the Yukon!), we came to the White River. It is white with volcanic ash from a couple of volcanic eruptions near here 1200+ years ago. We saw many white rivers in the area, and also many rivers on our entire hotels in daytona beach florida trip that were more river bed than water. I guess the spring run off is long over!
We stopped for the night at the Discovery Yukon Lodgings , a campground along the Alaskan Highway near White River. This was my favourite campground we stayed at, mostly because it has lots of cool old things, and it had one big fire pit for the entire campground to use, so we could socialize at night.
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Thousands of people, and hundreds of pieces of equipment hotels in daytona beach florida set out to put the highway through. Lots of the equipment hotels in daytona beach florida was left behind, or later retrieved after it suck into the mud. The campground had several old pieces of history!
hotels in daytona beach florida We joined some other campers at the campfire and met some folks from Australia, Missouri, Georgia, and England. The English couple started hotels in daytona beach florida their venture in Nova Scotia a couple years ago and told us about their favourite place to get ice cream in Antigonish!
The Australian man was a fire fighter who was taking his family on an extended vacation through the western part of Canada and the US for a few months. He purchased a big RV to live in for the vacation. We had a great time talking with him, and learning about Australian things, like how wombats poop in a pile on ledges, like they want to show it off (we had been talking about how the grizzlies seem to shit on the road a lot).
The campground is owned by a lady from Ireland who stayed at the campground once and loved it so much she bought it and now lives in the Yukon! Some of the campers were staying there to work in exchange for free lodging.
Thanks to the highway guide the lady at the tourist info centre gave us the day before, we knew were to turn off the highway to find the ruins of Silver City! Silver hotels in daytona beach florida City was a mining town. There was roadhouse and even an RCMP detachment here!
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