Then, off to the Chevy dealer to get a diagnostic for a check engine light. It turned out that there was no serious problem - BUT - we lost most of the day. We did not leave Whitehorse on the 530 km trip to Dawson City until nearly 16:00 - and that meant we did not arrive until nearly 22:00! A long day.
We left Whitehorse in a drizzling rain - I had all my rain gear on - and the visibility was not bad - so really not a bad ride. The stopped at Carmacks and filled with gas - and then off in the rain - which had gotten a bit heavier.
When we got to Pelly Crossing- it had stopped raining - so got a good picture of the bridge over the Yukon River.
I think I missed a ton of good pictures - the rain just made the seeing too poor to really tell. By the time we got to Stewart Crossing - the rain was torrential - the light sucked - the road was bad including loose gravel and big frost heaves - the visor on my helmet kept wanting to fog up - and just to top it off - we started to get a lighting storm! The song that was playing in my head was "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"- and the line that was really resonating with me is "Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours" - it was a really shitty 40 - 50 minutes.
The next 50 - 60 km were just exhausting. By the time we got to just about the Dempster Highway turn off - we started to pop out of the rain - plus we could see the long arctic twilight west of Dawson up the valley - so the last 40 - 50 km were not bad at all!
In to dry clothes and over to Diamond Tooth Gertie's for food a beverage - and meet some new people!
Darn weather. Can't wait to hear about Tuk :)
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