Day 28, July 30

Today was our first cool and overcast morning. We went in search of a service station where we can fill the motorhome with diesel and propane tomorrow morning. We found the Farmer’s Market that only had 5 vendors at it. Crafts, baking and one market garden. We were looking for sweet corn and only found some at No Frills that been imported from a distance. Certainly not the quality of Grahams or McCullys. 

We thought we would enjoy the Historical Walking Tour of Downtown. It turned out to be viewing plaques on buildings that have replaced the historical ones. 

We stopped in at the Visitor Centre again to find out about the Alaska Highway House where there is information on the building of the Alaska Highway. Turns out that all the information from the original Alaska Highway Hoyse is at Walter Wright Pioneer Village in the only building we didn’t enter yesterday. We headed back to the Village and spent a fascinating hour learning about the highway that was built in response to a perceived threat of invasion from the Japanese. The highway was built in 8 months over a distance of 1523 miles from Dawson City to Fairbanks. Over the next two years the road was refined to make it more passable and eliminate grades as steep as 24%. 

The afternoon was spent readying for the Alaska Highway, making sure that all systems are ready for this next step. We hope to leave before the caravan gets on the road as they sometimes tend to drive in groups and hold up traffic and give a bad name to RVers. If we see traffic building behind us (5 vehicles), we find a place to pull over to let them go by but not everyone is that courteous.