Skagway day 2

We woke up early and walked to breakfast. We have no picnic table or fire ring here, and while we can make coffee without either, if we are in town or it's raining, we tend to eat breakfast out. Today, we selected a Cajun Breakfast place, and the food was home cooked by Mom.

We walked back to the campground afterward and then drove out to the former boom town of Dyea nearby. Dyea was a boomtown on the Klondike trail for about a year. In that time, they built a 2 mile dock to get men and goods into town on the shallow port. The Chilcoot trail was an old trail used by the Tniglit Indians for trading, but overnight, it became a route to the Klondike. It is 33 miles long. Normally, you can hike it and camp along the way in summer, but it is being worked on, so you can only hike 4 miles of it this year , nd no camping is allowed.

After Dyea, we came back and washed a couple of loads of laundry. We had some leftover pizza for lunch and then went to the Days of '98 Show with dancing and singing saloon girls, a piano player, and the local villan, Soapy Smith. It was based on a true story about Skagway. It was funny as they involved the audience a lot, but it came to a serious ending.

After the show , we walked around some more. Skagway is known for beautiful flowers and gardens. We ate an early supper at Olivia's, which is a B&B with a restaurant serving local foods. Our salad was from their garden, which we could walk through outside. Phil had Baked Alaska for the first time, too.

Now it is sprinking, so we are sitting in the camper reading. If it isn't raining tomorrow, we may take time to wash our bedding (sleeping bags) since the laundry here has big machines at a reasonable price.Read more