WE GOT TO ALASKA TODAY!!! We have driven 4,872 miles from home to the Alaska border.
Beverlee and Duke saw a gray fox at camp this morning. We left Dawson City and drove the Top of the World Highway. This was mostly a gravel road with intermittent paved sections. The gravel part was smoother than the pavement. After passing the U.S./Canada border, the U.S. gravel road deteriorated dramatically and was slower going. We stopped at Chicken, Alaska and got a boondocking site for free with a fill up of gas. There are no phones (or electricity except by generator) in this town, so I couldn't call to check on mom. I will have to call mom when we get to Tok, Alaska, tomorrow. The town got it's name because the early settlers wanted to name it Parmagin, Ptarmagin, Ptarmigan, oh well, they couldn't agree on the spelling so they settled on Chicken. The first thing Jim did was to get an Alaskan IPA beer from the Chicken Creek Saloon. He wanted a beer with some hops in it since the Canadian beers were so wimpy. We had a late lunch/early dinner at the Chicken Creek Cafe. They all had BBQ Chicken and I had a hamburger. We went to the Chicken Creek Saloon (it reminded us of Luckenbach) and talked with two guys, Sean and Ken, who worked on the highways. We bought each other several rounds of beers. An old geezer named Toad, who has lived in Chicken 45 years and used to work on the local gold dredge, kept asking me (and other women) to marry him.
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