Haines to Skaway

07-18 Haines to Skagway

Used the turnout last night but a Haines police lady said I needed a permit.
So I moved up to a fishing lodge like place.. had cabins and a wide graveled area for RVs
Salmon Run Campgrounds and Cabins

Nice place but no amenities. Just a picnic table and flat spot.
Real nice view though as the web site shows.
Cost $10 per night but I don't know how to rate it.
Call it a 7

I did some photography and eagle watching and talking to people.
The guy next to me, Deal, is from Alberta and they had pulled this funky camping trailer pop up.
I kinda liked it. Fleetwood makes it.
Weighs 3000 pounds dry.

00:10

The Ferry was the Malaspina again.



Cost
Passenger $31USD
34 ft rig $112USD

We didn't leave until 9:oo PM (scheduled 8:30) and were delayed out in the sound.

00:16

We had to do a 360 to allow this cruise ship out of the Skagway straight.
That took about ten or 15 minutes.
Didn't get to the dock until 10:15 PM

00:40
Jumpy video a few of the many cascades in the narrows

07-19 Skagway

This is a tourist town.
The downtown portion looks like Disneyland with period architecture and new clean paint... with even national park rangers giving historical tours.
This is part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park... and it shows.
Great place for tourists


I froze my chicken eggs
Got them too close to the freezer and plunk! they froze.
I was thinking about defrosting them but dont recall ever seeing frozen eggs in the food stores so defrosting them might be bad
Threw them out and got a new doz
Which brings up something I want to post
Breakfast with an egg.
If you scramble and cook an egg in a skillet then you have a scrambled egg of course.
But if you crack open an egg in a small bowl and add a half tbsp of water and then scramble it up until it has perfect homogeneous consistency and then pour it in a pan with a small bit of butter and cook it on the lowest temperature and as slowly as possible.. stirring slowly but always stirring.
well then you have a gourmet egg. Moist yet cooked, flavorful not scalded and dried out. Eggs are not only mother natures perfect protein they are extremely tasty if properly cooked.
Most people just cook the taste right out of eggs
Try it my way once.

Overheard on the fishing charter regarding the higher than average availability of men for women as concerns finding a mate in Alaska:
She: "the odds are good"
She2: "Yeah but the goods are odd"

Dennis in Skagway says:
There was this snail and she was assaulted by a turtle.
When the police arrived and asked what happened she said,
I dunno! It all happened so fast!"

Just sayin


Got into Skaway late last night and just drove out of town on the highway to a pull out and went to sleep.
Staying in the Garden City RV-park and Laundromat today.

I haven't made up my mind how long I'll stay but they have Wifi and its not crowded and it was cheap ($20 full hookups and strong free Internet wifi).

They have put in a new RV spot down on the docks, The Pullen Creek RV Park.
Very nice and newer than the Church's last printing so it wasn't in their book.

I had a lot of time to chat with Garden City owner, John Garland.
He runs a really clean park and he has monthlys too.
But I think one of the reasons monthlys don't get out of hand is John being meticulous about having them keep their areas uncluttered but also this park is not open all year.
Come winter everything shut down and all the trailers are gone so it can never get that-trailer trash look.

We talked about the RV business this year and he said it was the worst year ever (I never asked how long he has been doing this).
He says can never tell one day to the next how many RVers might show up at the end of the day but he said he has not had one full park this year and most years he is full at least once every week... so

John thinks the RVing business in on permanent decline. Not just the current economy and not just the gas prices... so he said.

Another interesting thing John said, "I've never owned an RV but if I got one I'd one like yours (not sure if meant a fiberglass egg like mine or some other small trailer).