Fergie Road Trip

Kluane Lake, Yukon Today we drove 20 miles southeast to Cottonwood RV Park. Decided to stay here at a spot next to the lake for $40 with electricity, water and showers. The wi-fi exists but is so slow as to be not working.   I tried to upload one photo and after 20 minutes it loaded. Yay! They also have a dump which costs an additional $10.   We have a beautiful view of the lake, Darrel is sitting out by the picnic table taking pictures. The thought crossed our minds to go fishing then the word CANADA crossed our minds, too.   It’s very expensive for a fishing license here so we’ll probably wait until we get back into Lower Alaska as we already have a license to fish there. You can get a permit for one day for $20-30 but that makes for an expensive fish unless they are biting like crazy. Nobody is fishing here, so... This is another place that's seasonal, it will close on Aug 31. The host said they get 6 feet of ice on the lake, enough to drive on. Our camp nei...

Tok River Campsite #18 Traveled the rest of the way on Tok Cut Off Road towards Tok, today. There were no traffic stops for road construction but we had to slow for damaged road and gravel road areas. Even though the speed limit was 35 mph, some cars and trucks go way faster and they shoot up the gravel.  Luckily, we made it through without getting a cracked windshield again.  Stopped for breakfast at the Sourdough RV Park. Unfortunately, breakfast was over and they were serving lunch. We were looking forward to having some of their sourdough pancakes again. We were the only customers and had a long conversation with the cook and park hosts (from Idaho) about RV traveling, while we ate lunch. We learned some things about winterizing our RV.  We stopped outside of Tok for the rest of the day and overnight at Tok River State Rec. Site. Cost: $20 for dry camping. We checked in just after everybody checked out so right now it's pretty empty. In the morning when we get up...

Grizzly Lake/ Mt. Sanford Today was a long day. We usually don't drive for more than 50 miles but today we drove 182. Most of the day was spent waiting on the Tok Cut Off road in construction area lines where only one direction of traffic was allowed on the road at a time. The road has a lot of frost heave and huge pot holes. They must work on it all summer every summer, it looked a lot better than it did 5 weeks ago. We were at the other end of the cutoff road, (the Tok end) but at that time it wasn't a road we wanted to continue on due to the bad condition. After seeing the Wrangle Mountain Range, we were hoping to find a campsite that had a view of those snow topped mountains. We ended up at Grizzly Lake with a beautiful view of the Mt. Sanford. We were so close to the lake we could fish from our picnic table. We didn't catch anything. Darn! No worries, we are still eating the salmon we caught on the Kenai River.