July 3, DAY 53
We left Valdez at 7:30 AM and it was cloudy and 57 degrees until we finished the climb to Thompson Pass and the skies cleared. We could look back and see the clounds because we were now driving above the clouds. It was sunny and 75 when we arrived at Tok.
July 4, DAY 54
Happy 4th of July and we are headed back to Canada and Destruction Bay more specifically. We are going to have a big dinner celebration there at the campground. This was another tough day of driving with 4 stretches of dirt and gravel 10 miles each. Where there is dirt and gravel there are frost heaves. My credit card got locked up again and this time they want to issue me a new account with new cards. They just didn’t seem to understand I was traveling and now way to get those new cards. Glad I have more than one credit card. Told them to just leave it frozen. They said they would rush the cards to me but didn’t seem to understand I wouldn’t confirm receipt until September when we returned?
July 5, DAY 55
Today we arrived in Skagway AK with the 12 mile 8% downhill grade. It was quite a trip with low gear too low and second gear not low enough for engine to help the breaks more. No help from the break buddy since it does not activate on gradual changes in breaking. It has hardly activated this entire trip. The breaks did get a little hot but no problem or break fade before reaching the bottom. We did manage to stop for Customs so guess that was good? Skagway was sunny and 82 degrees. There average high is 62. We went to Monte Carlo night and kind of a vaudeville show about Soapy Smith. One of the group bent his hitch on a frost heave today and finished the trip to town driving vehicles separately. He carries a Harley between his Pusher and his jeep and made arrangements to have it shipped home to Georgia so he could still connect his jeep to the hitch receiver. The device that hold the Harley was bent pretty badly. I hit that same heave but a little slower and still bounced. Less than half a mile from that sopt was a truck pulling a trailer that had broken its axle. Too bad that spot wasn’t marked?
July 6, DAY 56
Took the boat to Juneau to shop and visit Mendenhall glacier. It was a great day but a bit warm in the mid 80s. People were swimming at the glacier which was something that doesn’t happen often because it would be too cold. It was a 12 hour trip and the tailgunner stayed behind to dog sit. We got back to Skagway to find they hit a new temperature high of 92. Thankfully half the campground left in the morning so no power outages from everyone try to run AC. The voltage is very low so when they are full I was getting only 105 volts on a 30 amp line.
July 7, DAY 57
We shopped in Skagway today along with the passengers of 4 cruise ships. Need I say more? We also took the evening White Pass Train to the summit. Another scorcher of a day and no AC on the train. We had a reserved car for the caravaners but unfortunately it was the one behind the engines on the way up. We were last on the way back so not so bad. The views were great but the sun in your face most of the time making hard for picture taking.
July 8, DAY 58
We were up early and out of the park to start that long climb back up the mountain. We heard the out group was planning to leave between 730 and 800 so we were all on our way before 730. Also heard there were going to be 6 ships in port today. We all got back to Teslin by noon for a lazy day before moving back to Watson Lake. Some want to go check the Sign Forrest again since they didn’t post signs last time. We are planning a group cook out when we get there.
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