Friday, August 24, 2012
Cheri Aug-23-12
10:28 PM | 
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Sharp's Travels
It rained in the wee hours of the morning. It stopped long enough for everyone to ready their units for traveling and then the misty rain started again. We slowly drove out of that bad weather and we were off, heading up the Klondike Highway.
We were driving through the permafrost area. There were plateaus and rolling hills. It was also an agricultural area. They grew potatoes. Spike says they are the white potato but have a real sweet flavor.
Our first event of the day was Spike losing a tire off of Roger’s travel trailer. It just came flying off and down into the ditch on the side of the road. Spike pulled over and they looked for the tire but it was nowhere to be found. The rest of the group continued on to our first stop at Raeburn Lodge at mile 68. The Lodge is the last stop for the mushers doing the Yukon Quest before heading on into Whitehorse. This place is famous for their giant sticky buns. Spike had called ahead and ordered one for each rig. No one could believe the size of these sticky buns. We waited here for Spike to catch up. It ended up that the lug nuts were shirred off the wheel and Roger had to turn around and go back 40 miles into Whitehorse and get a whole new hub for that wheel. Roger and Spike switched trailers that they were pulling and Roger would have to join back up with the group as soon as he could.
The second event was a tire alarm going off on one of the rigs. We hung back and helped check the tire out. Everything was ok, so we were off trying to catch up with the rest of the caravan.
The next stop was mile 179 and we finally caught up with the group just before they pulled in for lunch at mile 179. We took a 40 minute break there and were on our way.
The third event was another caravan member’s truck shredded a front tire on his truck. We pulled over with that unit; put out our orange cones and Gay & Roger set to work changing the tire. It took them ½ hour and then it was catch-up time again. We passed the tailings of the dredging that was done here along the roadside. Mining remains the #1 industry in the Yukon Territory.
We were 12 miles behind our caravan when they reached Dawson City. Spike gave them a tour of the location of the best places to buy gas if needed and then pulled up by the road to wait for us to go by and enter the campground get ready to bring everyone in. Getting everyone parked went smoothly.
Spike used our truck to give the city tour to everyone. It is such a neat little town.
Roger didn’t arrive until about 8:45pm. We don’t know how he made out with his trailer & parts. It was a long day for him.
We were late getting settled in. Gay found the energy to grill steaks on the grill and we finally sat down for dinner at about 8:30pm. We were both tired and turned in early. Tomorrow will be another busy day.
To see pictures of the day click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on albums: Whitehorse to Dawson City
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