Tok and Destruction Bay, Yukon and then Skagway, Alaska

We visited Tok once again since this is our way back.  Can't believe that we are on the downhill slide of this trip already.  We took our guests out to Fast Eddie's for pizza and soda.  Everyone seemed to enjoy it.  On the road again, everyone could stop at the Delta Junction and get pins as well as a certificate saying that they had completed the official end of the Alaska Highway. 

On to Destruction Bay for August 3rd. Loren, the owner, is quite the Yukon man. He serves us an amazing meal of baron of beef, a layered green salad, beans, potato salad, rolls and his gamma's recipe for apple brown betty with whipped cream.  All very delicious ! !  He also sold walking sticks in a variety of stages of completeness. They were of diamond willow. He was quick to say, not red willow. We bought one which we found a similar one at another store for twice the money!! He also had Suzanne come and teach beading. Very intriguing and hard to do. LOL.  He had some beautifully made wooden, folding tables too. Sold a lot of them. After a little break from dinner, he had his friend, Gary, come in and tell stories and sing for us. Loren ended the evening by singing a few songs himself. Would have almost been a better evening if he had sang and not had Gary there.  LOL

Skagway is an amazing area, however, we had a last minute change in our directions as the campground changed our plans on us. They are owned by the City and don't seem to get their stuff in order sooooooooooo, half our group were at one end of town and the other half near the marina, at the other end of town. Happy that we are so busy there that it worked out ok. The night we got here we went to the Soapy Smith Vaudeville Show with a Monte Carlo Casino night. One of our guests, Linda, was the big winner. She also caught the biggest halibut when we were in Homer.  Lucky gal ! ! 

Saturday, August 5th we boarded a catamaran on Fjord Express for Juneau, about 90 miles away. We saw a lot of wildlife but not whales bubble feeding like we did last year.  Darn it ~  

While in Juneau, our Tail Gunners, Karen & Bob Hephner took a float plane ride in celebration of Karen's birthday.

We watched from the safety of a wonderful restaurant and enjoyed a terrific lunch.










On August 6th we boarded the White Pass/Yukon Railroad Train at 8:00am. It took us up the mountain past waterfalls, old trestles and then the valley below. 

You can actually see part of the Gold Rush Trail too. We were back early afternoon and then went that evening to a wonderful dinner at the Skagway Fish Company. Was so good ! ! Fantasy RV Tours substituted that dinner for the, now closed, Frantic Follies... Good trade, take the dinner, any time.