Day 5

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I finally got a bit of a picture of the dog that kept popping up in the window. It was her face in the window that was so funny though.

Her name is Taiya named after the Taiya River. 

So, interesting day today. We had booked a city and mountain summit tour for today in lieu of the Yukon Train which isn’t running. Got up early and went to the meeting location but it was locked up tight. I called the number on the booking and the man was in Alabama. Apparently Viator (a trip advisor company) keeps booking his tours even though he’s told them numerous times he is closed until/unless the cruise ships start coming back and to stop booking them. He felt really bad about it but here we are in town at 7 am with nothing to do. Most of the shops are closed due to the pandemic and the ones that do open, don’t open until 10 or 12 or not at all because it’s Sunday. We walked around forever! We did find the Klondike Gold Rush museum open at 10 and they own several buildings in town so we learned more than you ever wanted to know about the gold rush, “Soapy Smith, Frank Reid and other notable characters of Skagway. Incredible how many lives were lost trying to get rich. 

So so so glad we had a car and drove up to the summit on our own yesterday. 

Snow blower train
Skagway was founded by William Moore (a former steamboat captain) and his son Ben Moore. Believing there was gold in the Klondike, he built his homestead ( a log cabin) at the mouth of the Skagway river. He also built a sawmill and a wharf in anticipation of the Klondike Gold Rush. Maybe we’re related 😁. 

Museum pics
Old butcher’s building 
The “new” Moore homestead, finished about 2 1/2 years after building his log cabin below. 

Leaving Skagway. We are back on a ferry headed to Juneau. It started raining right after we got on the ferry and we are retracing the path we took coming up to Skagway so good time for the rain. Will arrive Juneau 9 pm. I will sign off with a before Kim and after Kim mosquito pic. 

They are huge!

Comments

  1. KodyJuly 12, 2021 at 12:05 PM

    Bummer about the mountain summit tour. It’s just a funky year all the way around. The after Kim mosquito looks like a skull. So thankful the scenery is so beautiful. That is worth it even if all the excursions go awry.

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    1. CJMooreJuly 12, 2021 at 5:35 PM

      It definitely is. And we are having a great time exploring on our own. We get to see things that most people wouldn’t be bothered with because of time.

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  2. Jo AnneJuly 12, 2021 at 3:59 PM

    Well good grief!!! Bummer indeed. But fortunately you have that car and found some interesting and bountiful information and things to see. Are those gargantuan 🦟 eating y’all up?? 🙄

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    1. CJMooreJuly 12, 2021 at 5:37 PM

      Definitely interesting! Believe it or not I haven’t gotten a mosquito bite yet but they swarmed us when we were walking in the woods. A local told us the trick is to move fast 🤣.

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