Sunday 29 June 2008
Lunch time, again. Their was also a beautiful lake behind me. Very large deer flies, black flies, mosquito’s and other types of bugs pretty well kept Kay in the RV. 
Sometimes it seems like I keep my head up my rear. I would assume most banks have the same policy that requires their card holders to let them know when they will be using their credit cards in xyz country. To make it worse, I was in my bank, in Seattle, last Monday and Tuesday and it didn’t cross my mind to tell them I would be using my credit card in Canada. I’m lucky my first transaction was to get cash on my ATM card. I later found out my ATM card was frozen but I didn’t sweat it because I had my credit card. Now I find out the credit card is frozen too. We are at the Hi Country RV Park, $15.00 cash and no hook-ups, in the capital of the Yukon, Whitehorse http://www.hicountryrvyukon.com/ . Kay went to the front desk, a while ago and the weighting line to camp here for the night was seven RV’s. They are totally booked but were calling other camp grounds to see if they could accommodate others. We had plans to go into town and have a nice trout dinner but now we are afraid to spend any money until we get the credit card issue fixed.
Nock on wood, but my little View has performed beautifully, my gas millage, so far, is 17.024 MPG, not bad. When I was estimating our cost for this trip I used 17 MPG at $5.00 per gallon. The $5.00 per gal is fairly close at $4.87 per gal. The roads have been very good but are getting a bit rough and were hearing they will get rougher. I can tell anyone that is interested in taking this trip that they need at least 2 or 3 months to do it right. We can tell, already, that we are going to be pressed for time.
Sigh Post Forest in Watson Lake, Yukon
Sometimes it seems like I keep my head up my rear. I would assume most banks have the same policy that requires their card holders to let them know when they will be using their credit cards in xyz country. To make it worse, I was in my bank, in Seattle, last Monday and Tuesday and it didn’t cross my mind to tell them I would be using my credit card in Canada. I’m lucky my first transaction was to get cash on my ATM card. I later found out my ATM card was frozen but I didn’t sweat it because I had my credit card. Now I find out the credit card is frozen too. We are at the Hi Country RV Park, $15.00 cash and no hook-ups, in the capital of the Yukon, Whitehorse http://www.hicountryrvyukon.com/ . Kay went to the front desk, a while ago and the weighting line to camp here for the night was seven RV’s. They are totally booked but were calling other camp grounds to see if they could accommodate others. We had plans to go into town and have a nice trout dinner but now we are afraid to spend any money until we get the credit card issue fixed.Nock on wood, but my little View has performed beautifully, my gas millage, so far, is 17.024 MPG, not bad. When I was estimating our cost for this trip I used 17 MPG at $5.00 per gallon. The $5.00 per gal is fairly close at $4.87 per gal. The roads have been very good but are getting a bit rough and were hearing they will get rougher. I can tell anyone that is interested in taking this trip that they need at least 2 or 3 months to do it right. We can tell, already, that we are going to be pressed for time.
Sigh Post Forest in Watson Lake, Yukon
Crossing Teslin Lake
Our crowded parking space, along with the tenters. Luckily these tinters have family with a 40 footer and a 34 footer. They live in Juno, Alaska.30 June 2008
Decided to drive on, from Whitehorse and head for Tok, Alaska. Had to exchange $140.00 US dollars for $138.95 Canadian so I could buy diesel. We drove 392 miles and my gas gage is sitting between ¼ and ½ full, not bad hu? I will be calling my credit union tomorrow and hopefully get the credit card situation straightened out.
Finley made it to Tok, Alaska late in the afternoon. I think the last 90 miles took us two and a half hours. We made better time on the sections that were gravel rather than the paved sections. Some of the road was so rough we could hardly get over 30 miles per hour but that probably didn’t hurt the gas mileage either. We are tired and will probably hit the hay early. It’s a good thing Kay made the black-out curtains because it doesn’t get dark until around eleven o’clock and the sun comes up around 4:AM. It has a lot of RViers are really messed up but we're doing fine. This RV camp has wi-fi but they want $2.95 for 1 hour, $4.75 for two hours and besides my credit cards won’t work.
Our phones are working and you can call any time you won’t for the next few weeks.
Some of the scenery after leaving Whitehorse, YukonAs some of you know, Kay and I sleep in a Trava Sak. A Trava Sak is similar to a sleeping bag but has one long sheet that covers the inside. One side of the Trava Sak is for winter and the other is for summer. I have had the summer side on top because it’s summer but last night I got a bit chilly, the temperature was 40 degrees in Whitehorse this morning. I have fixed that by putting the winter side on top, so maybe I well sleep better tonight. It is 9:35 PM, 52 degrees and it is raining real lightly and you know how that sounds in a RV.
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Got up this morning and got my credit cards working again and headed to Fairbanks, Ak. Actually we are staying in North Pole, Ak., a suburb of Fairbanks. On the way we stopped at Rika, a historical road house. Almost bought Riley and Autumn a blue jean jacket trimmed in pink fur but couldn’t find the right sizes. Drove around Fairbanks and stopped by Fred Myers (a Kroger store) they have diesel for $5.09 and if you have the $100.00 credit they will knock off .10 cents per gallon, what a bargain. We are at the River View RV park in North Pole, Ak. http://www.riverviewrvpark.net/ We intend to stay around here tomorrow washing RV, clothes etc. We also intend to check out the things we can do around here. Hey, phone works, got credit, what else would one want?
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