Category: Top of the World & Taylor Highways

Friday, September 23rd, was mostly a day of wandering along the Top of the World Highway back to Dawson City, exploring some side roads along the way. The world didn’t look the way I had expected it would in the morning. Despite heavy rain, strong, dry winds from the...

Thursday didn’t go quite as planned, but I finally made it to Forty Mile, and it ended with a truly incredible experience out in the middle of nowhere on the Top of the World Highway. This is another very long post, with 39 photos. We got off to a...

Yesterday we made the fairly short but spectacular drive from Tok, Alaska to Dawson City, Yukon. We were away from Tok at 08:30, and an hour later made our first rest stop below Mount Fairplay on the Taylor Highway. At 10:20 we reached Chicken, and the post office was...

The adventure continues. Yesterday we crossed over a highway that strikes fear into the hearts of many RV drivers – the Top of the World. Most of those people actually use the name incorrectly, though, because it’s the Taylor Highway on the Alaska side that gets drivers’ heart rates...

Another day in Dawson would be wonderful – there’s just so much to see and do. But by 09:15 yesterday morning we were on the little ferry George Black, crossing the Yukon River and saying good-bye to The City of Gold. About 4 km up the Top of the...

Day 2 dawned wet. With the weather forecast suggesting that the rain would end in the morning I decided to take advantage of being in no hurry and wait it out, so I fueled up, went for a leisurely breakfast down the road at Buckshot Betty’s and wandered around...

Diamond Tooth Gertie’s in Dawson City was fun as always, even though almost everyone left after the first show. Maybe they just figured that after watching Barry performing on stage, everything else would be a let-down! 🙂 Yesterday morning, we began our adventure across the Top of the World...

Getting off the usual tourist route seems to be less common each year, so I really enjoying hearing from people who are doing it. In the last couple of days, I received 2 emails that point to images I’d like you to see. First, “SueT”, a frequent poster on...

I had no Internet access in Tok on Friday night, and the party went on too long for blogging last night 🙂 so I’m a couple of days behind. As I write this, my Web site server is down so I can’t upload it – that’s a very rare...