26 Jul

Posted at 08:13h in Blogs-Kids
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When we woke up in Tombstone Territorial Park, we got a good look at the scenic mountains surrounding us. They were very jagged, like the teeth of the shark. We even saw patches of snow on some of them. That day we went to the visitor center there. They had info on all the animals around that place. They had something called "birch syrup". I asked the lady there if she knew it tasted good. She said that she personally didn"™t like it, but it tasted a bit like molasses. So far there is nothing that can compare to maple...

25 Jul

Posted at 08:12h in Blogs-Kids
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Today we woke ready to leave. To Dempster Highway! We drove out of Dawson City and went to the entrance of the highway. It was paved, but only for a little while, than it went to very hard, dusty, grey gravel. We were driving and stopping and driving and stopping, just because it was so beautiful. Before we knew it, we were in the mountains. And more importantly, we were in the middle of them: in Tombstone Territorial Park. I had a nice cup of hot tea to get me ready for bed. And Mom did too. That evening it...

24 Jul

Posted at 08:11h in Blogs-Kids
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Today we woke in the parking place we got at the RV place in Dawson city. When Mom went to get her laundry done there, she met a nice lady named Joan who said would tell us if the "gold" we got was real or not. Dad went with us to see the result. She panned through it all and it happened to be mostly mica, a substance that looked like gold, but quickly and easily dissolves and breaks. In the end, we got one small piece of gold. We thanked her very much for also giving Syd a little...

23 Jul

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Today we woke up around 10:30 and Dee-Dee and Tanya took down their tent. We did a few more casts, but it was hopeless. We packed and left. Now to you readers, whenever you think about the Yukon (unless you have been there before in the summer) you sometimes think of a tired gold prospector being eaten alive by mosquitoes watching the cold arctic ice barely melted by the cloud covered sun slowly gushing down a mountain into a half frozen solid lake. Wrong! Well, at least half wrong. There are some mountains with snow on them, new age gold...