Jun 2007

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Awesomely beautiful little city of 4000. 7 miles of paved bike paths, home of Prince William Sound, loads of hiking & mtn. biking trails.
A list - Would love to return for a couple of weeks during their big fishing season - August! Witnessed a very petitte gal come off a fishing charter w/a 266lb. Halibut! Can any of you top that? Great Karma in Valdez! Vicky learned to can salmon-yippee!

Got news that the King Salmon are running in the Gulkana River, so we switched gears & headed down Hwy 4 towards Glenn Allen junction. Found a outfitter w/a rustic campground (no water/sewer/electric) on the Gulkana river. After talking w/a few locals, Jimboni raced down to the river & proceeded to catch a 30lb King Salmon. Our fellow campers from Oregon helped us clean & filet it. Then, we took the salmon roe & curred it for future bait.
Since it's stays light most of the night, Jimboni went out again 130am - caught another 20lb King! Yippee! We dry camped here for 3 days

Wed. 6/13 is our traveling buddy, Cindy's 50th Birthday, so we headed up to Dawson City for an overnite in a hotel & celebrate Cindy's big 5 0! 5 hour drive of curvey, unpaved roads & then took a ferry to get to the darling old mining town of Dawson City. Felt like we had taken a step back into time. They've done a very good job keeping their history & structures in tact! It's a get there & walk around the town type of place!

Whitehorse to Tok is almost 400 miles, so we stopped @ a Provincial Campground about 1/2 way. Nice campsite on the river-dry camped. Also stopped @ a burl wood carving place called Scullywood. What a character! He's doin' what he loves - making beautiful bowls out of knots from the trees. The place is full of interesting stuff - "Uneek Today, Anteek Tommorrow" Scully was the hi-lite of our day! Arrived in Tok after a very slow go on washboard, gravel, dusty, potholled, frost heave roads! We rig was filthy dirty as we crossed the border & arrived in Tok. Fortunately, our campground had a RV wash-yippee! Nice campground w/all the amenities - even internet & cell phone coverage!!
We going to drive our jeep up to Dawson City (we heard the road was rough, so thought we'd make better time scooting up in the car!