Day 29 of Our RV Journey to Canada & Alaska - 6/10/14 Spending Today at TOK, Alaska

We arrived at Tok, Alaska yesterday afternoon and stayed overnight at TOK RV Village.  Today, we are just taking it easy.  This morning we all got together and went to a few of the shops.  Some of them had some nice animal mounts, racks, etc. on display from this area.  I took some pictures that I will share with you.

Musk Ox

Grizzly Bear

Two Wolves and a Dall Sheep

Black Bear

Grouse

Moose antlers

Chandelier made out of Moose antlers

Some other interesting things I saw while we were exploring the area:

A trapper's sled was hanging from a log beam for display.

Ginger took a good picture of a full body mount of a Moose that is displayed in a small enclosed gazebo-shaped building...Moose are huge!!!

This cabin has a sod roof with 2 push mowers on top of the roof;  the small cabins all had sod roofs, too.

The words scratched in this log support to a porch are:  "This is how high the sun gets at high noon on the shortest day of the year."  (It had a tube attached that when you looked through it, the sun at high noon here in Tok, Alaska on the shortest day of  the year would have been where the sun is positioned in the sky at 8:30 am in Missouri.  I thought that was quite interesting and a good visual.)

Not sure what this machine is, but we are thinking it is for getting around in the snow, ice & mud.

I took a picture of a Fish Wheel yesterday while waiting for Ginger & Jesse to come across the Yukon River on the ferry.  The fish wheel is anchored out in the water in a current, and as the current turns the wheel, the fish go into the baskets and then the fish slide down a shoot into a capture basket.

Today, I purchased for myself a Ulu (pronounced oo-loo) Blade, Block & Bowl  that is made in a factory in Anchorage, Alaska.  The native Eskimo people of the Arctic has used these for centuries.  These days, the ulu is used in many modern kitchens to perform culinary chores from chopping nuts, herbs, vegetables, slicing cheese, pizza, meat, etc.  I wanted to buy myself a keepsake from Alaska...so what better than something made in Alaska that I can actually put to use.  "Rachael Ray...you don't have anything on me!!!"

We have been on this trip for almost a month now (29 days ago we left), and we are enjoying what will probably be for us a 'once in a lifetime' trip to Alaska.  We have a lot to see & do in the next three months here in Alaska, so "stay tuned".

We are always dreaming and planning where we want to go next. When you live full-time in a RV, you can always just fill up with fuel, and head out in whatever direction we choose to go.  Our future plans, in a few years, include going to see the eastern part of Canada, starting by going up around the Great Lakes on the Canadian side and travel east and then go down the east coast of the United States. 

Bob filled up his truck with diesel. ($4.469/gal x 27.970 gal = $125.00 Cap)  Cheaper than Canada!

Today, we ate pasta; Ginger fixed Chicken Pasta Bake and I fixed Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce.  YUMMO!!!

Enjoy the rest of your day!!

Propane 43.75 Cap/

Souv/Gifts 150.00 Csh/

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