Day 24 of Our RV Journey to Canada & Alaska - 6/05/14 Day Trip to Skagway, Alaska via Train & Motor Coach

Today, we are signed up and paid for a day trip to Skagway by train and motor coach.  We met at the campground office/store; leaving at 8:30 am.

We road motor coach along the Klondike Highway.  The driver stopped at Emerald Lake on the way for picture taking.

The motor coach stopped at Carcross, Y.T. (which is short for caribou crossing).  It is a historic Yukon town that has a gold rush general store, the steam engine Duchess, and a White Pass & Yukon Route train station.

In Fraser, BC, we boarded a train for a hour & forty five minute train ride through the White Pass.  The train even had a little oil heat stove to keep it warm inside.

Ginger & Jesse

Bob & I

Bob & Ginger

and this is 'crazy Jesse'

While on the train we saw two bears.  We didn't get a picture of the bigger one due to the train moving, and just got a little of the smaller bear.  Look in the picture below, under the camera Ginger is holding and you will see part of the small black bear.

Ginger got a picture of the smaller bear

Some pictures taken while on the train of scenery from Fraser, B.C. to Skagway, Alaska:

We arrived in Skagway at approx 12:45 pm.  We had two hours to explore the historic town of Skagway.
Skagway was the gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898.  In only 5 months, between July and November of 1898, the US Mints in Seattle and San Fransisco received ten million dollars worth of Klondike Gold.  By 1900, another thirty-eight million dollars had been recorded...the result of the largest gold rush the world has ever known.

Skagway is at sea level (elevation is 0)
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Bob being "Bob"

 an old saloon

Cruise ships dock in Skagway so that the people on board can explore Skagway.

While we were in Skagway, we went into several shops, walked around the area and had lunch.   The return trip back to the campground in Whitehorse, Y.T. was by motor coach.

We were in Alaska today, but our RV's  & trucks were not.  We still have approx. 513 miles to go before we will be in Alaska again, this time with our "home on wheels".

While I was in Skagway, we were able to use our cell phones so I called home and wished my Mom & Dad a Happy 64th Anniversary.  Mom said Dad was not feeling too well today...sure hope he gets feeling better.

Jesse & Ginger and Bob & I decided we were going to stay one more night at this campground because there is some more things we want to see here in Whitehorse.  ($39.69Cap -1 more night)

Have a good rest of the day! It gets what they call "dark" here at 11:15 pm....it still seems light outside to us.

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Fd08.00Cap/

DiningOut045.00Cap/

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