Tuesday, 9/21/10

Up at 8 a.m. to the sound of a helicopter next to us picking up workers to transport to construction sites. Had breakfast at the restaurant at Burwash Landing.  Yes, we had problems starting the RV again.  It seems to stay running once it's warm, but that doesn't make any sense to us so we decide to find a mechanic in one of the larger cities we travel thru in Canada.  We got on the road at 9:45 am.

The weather is good and the scenery is beautiful around Destruction Bay, heading to Whitehorse.  If we stopped along the way we left the RV running.  After asking around, we found a mechanic in Whitehorse (New North Truck & Equipment) to look at the RV.  He invited us to park next to his shop for the night and he would look at it first thing in the morning.  We only managed 183 miles today since we didn't want to travel any further past Whitehorse without fixing the RV.

Monday, 9/20/10

Headed to the Canadian border today. It's about 90 miles from Tok, Alaska. We used electric heaters at our campsite last night. Although it was 22 degrees, we were warm and toasty and didn't have to use any propane.  We realized when we woke up this morning that we forgot to turn on the fridge yesterday afternoon after getting propane! Our discussion: "I'm not opening it" "you open it".  Thankfully everything inside the fridge was still good.  We must have a really good one huh?

We got dressed, unplugged our rig, checked and double checked everything, buckled up, started the RV to warm up and it died.  It wouldn't stay running. Here we were in Tok, Alaska, all packed for our long trip on the road and the RV wouldn't stay running.  After several attempts we called AAA and asked for a tow truck but before I got off the phone, Mike managed to keep the RV running.  Cancel the tow truck but keep AAA on speed dial!

Finally got on the road at 10:00 a.m. Concerned that the RV might not start again, we found a mechanic in Tok at Willards RV and Auto to take a look.  The mechanic (very nice fellow by the name of Mike) took his meters and ran a bunch of tests but nothing showed problems. So he replaced our headlights and charged us $185.98 for his services. 

Finally, we're back on the road at 1:00 p.m. and praying that the RV gives us no further problems.  Came up on our first road construction at Tanana River Bridge. We prepared ourselves for bad roads and lots of construction through the Yukon.  We stopped for lunch along the highway, relaxed, walked the dogs, enjoyed the scenery, and went to leave and the RV wouldn't stay running.  Prayer, coaxing, more prayer and finally she stayed running and we're on the road again.

Crossed the Canadian Customs at 4:45 pm Alaska time, which was 5:45 Canadian.  The roads were terrible with heaves, dust, gravel broken pavement, etc. We slowly made our way to Beaver Creek for gas and a short break.  The weather was beautiful so we planned to drive to Burwash Landing before stopping for the night.  Stayed at Burwash Landing Resort & RV Park for the night.