A lot of water and mud gets thrown up onto the underside of the fifth wheel. The front compartment is leaking a bit as a result:

I’ve added monster-sized mud flaps, hopefully that will help:

After the mud flap installation, we drove into downtown and visited the MacBride Museum of Yukon History. The museum had an impressive collection of native animals:


Sam McGee’s cabin was also on site. Robert Service, a bank teller at the time, met Sam and asked to use his name in the now-famous poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee.


Old stagecoaches that used to travel between towns during the gold rush:

Is this a compliment?

This is the first electric generator that served the area. Pressurized water was shot into the cups on the left, which turned the generator:

Tourist fun:




White Pass, makers of the first shipping containers:

A local freight train:

Back at the RV, we spoke to the driver of this contraption, a 24 passenger tour bus with 24 sleeping births in the back. The hallway for the sleeping births slides out on the passenger side, and the passengers find their birth and climb a ladder if necessary to get in. Looks a little tight to me, but it’s pretty neat:

Before dinner, I finally got around to pulling out the over-range microwave oven and installing in its place a medicine cabinet door salvaged from the bathroom remodel:


Behold, over-range storage:

Despite encouraging the kids to not play with their food….

We hope to get an early start tomorrow, visit the SS Klondike, and then head North.
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Love the pictures of the kids.
Really enjoying the updates.
Why remove the microwave?
We don’t use it, but we are could really use another 3 cubic feet of storage.