Today was another shorter and uneventful drive - no neat animals or amazing scenery. Maybe the mountains are old hat to us now. We got to Whitehorse and went to the Pioneer campground and saw that it was a parking lot on the highway so we moved on. We are now camped at Hi Country RV which is so much nicer. There are lots of cottonwood trees and great shade - which is a good thing because it is over 90F today.
We washed the trailer and truck in the campground RV wash as they were completely caked with dust after driving long stretches of gravel road. It is just great to have these outdoor wash areas with high powered hoses to clean off the camper so that we can see out the windows. As we were pulling out of the wash someone stopped us to saw that it looked like we had something sticking out of our spare tire under our rig. We looked and saw that somewhere along the way we had driven over a metal hot dog stick and it was embedded in the sidewall of the spare. We parked back at our camping spot and Rick crawled under the trailer to pull out the stick. The tire was ruined. We didn't want to go on without a good spare tire so we spent Sunday afternoon shopping for a new tire. Fortunately we are in a larger town and found a tire at Walmart which will work but does not quite match the others.
We took a tour of a Klondike River boat from the Gold Rush days. It was a pretty fancy way to travel for first class passengers. The boat had to stop frequently along the way to pick up additional wood to fire the steam engines. It was really interesting, but the heat was getting me down so we returned to our shady campground. There are many tourists from Germany traveling here in trailers with German plates. They must ship their campers over for a Canadian tour. We saw a couple very fancy German all-terrain campers for the ultimate off road experience. There are so many Germans traveling in this area that the German flag flies at many campgrounds.
Today was another shorter and uneventful drive - no neat animals or amazing scenery. Maybe the mountains are old hat to us now. We got to Whitehorse and went to the Pioneer campground and saw that it was a parking lot on the highway so we moved on. We are now camped at Hi Country RV which is so much nicer. There are lots of cottonwood trees and great shade - which is a good thing because it is over 90F today.
We washed the trailer and truck in the campground RV wash as they were completely caked with dust after driving long stretches of gravel road. It is just great to have these outdoor wash areas with high powered hoses to clean off the camper so that we can see out the windows. As we were pulling out of the wash someone stopped us to saw that it looked like we had something sticking out of our spare tire under our rig. We looked and saw that somewhere along the way we had driven over a metal hot dog stick and it was embedded in the sidewall of the spare. We parked back at our camping spot and Rick crawled under the trailer to pull out the stick. The tire was ruined. We didn't want to go on without a good spare tire so we spent Sunday afternoon shopping for a new tire. Fortunately we are in a larger town and found a tire at Walmart which will work but does not quite match the others. 
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