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Day 30 and our Tuktoyaktuk tour is picnic for steaks on the barbeque.
booked for July 11. We attended a The women stuffed their panties into a
lecture at Jack London’s cabin. Jack canon to be blown apart. It’s an all night
came from California during the gold drunk and we were disappointed. At the
rush but was so inspired by the north he border, Dave can’t restart Boo so he and
went back to California and wrote Call the border guard pushed Boo off to the
of the Wild in 1902. We had a great time side. Fortunately when I turned the key,
at Diamond Tooth Gerties and then we she started right up. To be on the safe
were off to find Sour Toe Cocktails. We side, we didn’t shut her down all the way
paid $10.50 for a shooter with an ugly home.
toe in it. I tossed it back for a certificate.
July 6: Boo’s starter is fixed, and we
On July 1 there’s a parade, celebrations, left for the Dempster Highway, 740 or
and food. The suspender-wearing mayor 760 km of gravel depending on your
said, “We are a nation of nations, setting sources. We are in for a mind-blowing
the example for the world.” At the end of northern experience of vistas, animals
the day we climbed into to Boo to head and vast expanses. 0
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home but when Dave tried to shift Boo
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It was late afternoon when we pulled into
into gear the shifter just flopped around.
our way up the Dempster, to Inuvik
Tatchum Creek Territorial Campground
With a little work he got her into gear.
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and travel the Mackenzie River to
which is $12 a night and includes
At 11:30 pm we drove seven km up a
Tuktoyaktuk, NWT. To contact us or
free firewood. We were swarmed by
hill overlooking Dawson City known as
order books:
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mosquitoes so we stayed indoors. It was
the Midnight Dome and took pictures of
treat time again the next day at Moose
the setting sun. The panorama of
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Creek Lodge. We stopped there for
the river, mountains, and outlaying
butter tarts before getting back on the
areas was breath taking.
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gravel road.
July 2: Boo’s shifter is fixed and,
From the Dempster junction onwards
leaving the trailer dry-camped, we
our trailer bucked over the 40 km of
left for Chicken, camping in Boo.
rolling highway to Dawson City. We
The free ferry takes us across the
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finally reached the Bonanza Gold RV
River before we climbed to the
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Park, our home base for the next 16
Top of the World Highway. This
days and then dashed into town to see
219 km highway includes steep,
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Dawson B4 Dusk set a record. Elizabeth
gravel road with spectacular .
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and Veronica were the first women’s
mountain scenery. The Alaska
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team in, the third place tandem canoe
border crossing at 4,127 ft is the
w
and they broke the previous women’s
most northerly land border port in
record by 20 min. Elizabeth says, “About
the USA.
three hours out the pain set in; I had
We pulled into Chicken into a new
blisters on my butt. It would have been
campground. The original building
easy to make excuses, slow down or
with the gift store, liquor store, tiny
quit but I put it away. When you’re that
pub, and café is up the hill. We
tired you go to a different space in your
parked out back. On July 4th we
mind.”
walked up the hill to the miner’s
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