Dawson-I've waited over 25 years to see this place

 It has been a long time coming and I wasn't sure I would ever make it but here we are in Dawson.

Today's driving was 540 km for a total so far of 2723 km.

Caro grabbed a breakfast for herself at Tim Horton's (I wasn't hungry) and we were on our way at 8:30 A.M. The drive up was actually boring most of the time. Carmacks had a few nice views in the area.

Actually just before Carmacks we stopped at an abandoned road house (this particular one built after 1909 sometime (I forgot to note the date). It interests me because I have always loved the book "I Married the Klondike" written by Laura Burton (The mother of Pierre ). She tells the story of her first arriving (by horse and sled) to Dawson in 1908 (I believe) and using these roadhouses for eating and sleeping on the way from the south.

After Carmacks is a famous rapids on the Yukon River called Five Finger rapids. It was a huge danger to the miners rafts and some died there. Even the paddle wheelers had to know what to do to get through. There is a viewpoint right at the rapids but it is an hour return hike so we carried on.

We encountered a fair bit of road construction (pilot cars two times today) and there were long stretches of all season gravel (and incidentally no animals seen today)

We felt quite tired when arrived about 3 P.M.

Our first stop was the visitors centre where we immediately signed up for three different tours over the next two days. 

Our hotel is nice.

We walked around town, enjoying a banana split to keep us energized before retiring to our room for a bit.

Tonight we are going to Diamond Tooth Gerties for supper and a show (it is also a casino). It costs $15 each for a "season pass" to the casino/restaurant/showroom. It opens at 7 P.M. and because of covid it has been suggested to get there right at opening because of a 100 person max.

Our hotel is also the location the world famous "sour toe" cocktail bar so I will be indulging in that one of the three nights we are here.

I imagine we will have a later than normal evening.