Come on, let's go back
Dawson City is a cool gold digger town with authentic turn-of-the-century houses, with 40,000 people living up here while the gold rush was in full swing. Actually, we would have liked to stay here longer, but it draws us me back south, back to warmer climes. For a Can Can Show there was still enough time.
Dear Miri: Many thanks at this point for your fleece headband, without which I would have been shock frozen long ago!
Soon we are back in Whitehorse and take some time here for some sights we missed during our first visit. We started with a visit to the S.S. Klondike, the largest stern steamboat on the upper reaches of the Yukon River, which was used as a cargo and passenger ship until 1955. Afterwards we visit the MacBride Museum, where we learn a lot more about the history of the Yukon and finally we stop by the fish ladder, where the migrating salmon are counted and classified. It is really fascinating what a hike these animals cover. After a few years in the Pacific they start their way back and partly swim up the rivers for more than 3000km until they arrive at their birthplace to spawn. They do the same if they were born in a Hatchery. They must have something in their micro-brain (it can't be that big...), which gives them the impulse for the way back and the orientation.
The kilometres add up up up here at these long distances and the tanks are quickly emptied. Today we stop somewhere in the middle of nowhere at a Feld-Wald-Wiesen filling station to fill up the fuel. The gas station is run by a Chinese (Mathias) or Japanese (Alex)...no idea, we agree on "Asian"... family. After asking the kiosk several times and various attempts to get the gas pump to start, we just can't get diesel to flow into our tank. What are we doing wrong? It's still cold and my nerve costume is too thin for such jokes. "Take the LO1...the LO1" it sounds through the window of the slit-eyed mini-woman. Where the hell do we get this "LO1" from and what are we supposed to do with it? The despair must be written on our faces when a miracle happens. It's not stuck to the chair, now trips towards us like ducks and presses the yellow tap into our fingers. Ah, now I understand! "The YELLOW ONE. In our defense: Diesel is usually always in the green dispenser and yellow or black is for gasoline!
Meanwhile, the Flood has begun. It is still cold (almost icy) and rain, rain, rain! String rain. Tapeworm rain. Endless rain.
To make matters worse, I've probably picked up the same nasty cold that caught Jessica. I have no more desire. Wants to go home to the soft sofa, wrap myself in the warm blanket and fall asleep after a hot tea in a episode of "Game of Thrones".
Ergo: I am ready for the hotel, for warmth and comfort!
Said, done. In the next place we check in at the first hotel (of altogether 2!), at which we drive past and are now in a small but fine room of the King Edward Hotel in Stewart.
First action of Mathias: Switch on the TV. What a coincidence, there is a Simpsons episode running right now!
First action Alexandra: Let the bathtub in.
Then bed. Then bathtub. Bed again. Again bathtub until the tube with the foam bath is empty.
Although a hotel stay is actually not planned in our budget plan, I find it here just quite great and do not regret the decision at all. Moreover, we got the room at a fair price (154 CHF for 2 nights). If I think about it carefully, they will make a loss with us. We are the only guests who don't leave the building at all and have drained the resources like leeches.
Right after the check-in at 12.00 o'clock we started. First of all we plugged in all electronic devices for charging and tapped electricity. 10 minutes later the bathtub was full and Mathias completed our film collection during my bathing orgy with the help of the free Wifi. The TV was in continuous operation until the day after next shortly before checking out. Last but not least, the bathroom also proved to be a good cleaning station for Baloo's air filter.
After this wellness program for body and soul we are again ready for further adventures and have a close look at the Salmon Run in the nearby Fish Creek as well as the gigantic Salmon Glacier. How good that the sun is now showing itself again!