Life is good. The lemonade is sweetest when made from the most challenging lemons. The solar generator can run the freezer all night without a recharge! We tested it for six hours yesterday as we visited Whitehorse. We walked the nice river path, visited the very informative visitor center, spent two hours at the McBride museum, went to the world's longest wooden fish ladder and had a flight of beer at Yukon Brewing Company. The generator still had 70% charge left!
The visitor center and museum visits were very good; videos and displays of the rich First Nations cultural heritage, in depth displays of the natural beauty, geology and wildlife of Yukon, fine displays of the gold rush days and the building of the Alaskan Highway, and historical figures from Whitehorse. The fish ladder was kind of cool; built by the hydroelectric power company as a pathway for migrating salmon to swim around the large dam built to power the turbines. The ladder is actually a sloped trough, long and wooden with informative displays. The sidewalls are glass, so people can see the thousands of salmon migrating. We were looking forward to seeing the salmon, after our experience in Kenai. We figured the kings would be done, but the reds would be passing through now, as it was on the Kenai River. We were way off on that. The ladder was empty except for a few small grayling who wandered in. The salmon that go up this river (the Yukon) aren't here yet. They started in the Bering sea on the west coast of Alaska, two thousand miles away! It takes them three months to make the journey, and they don't eat the entire time! All of that just to spawn and die. Not an option I would have ever voted for!
The beer flight was OK, but the Brewers were too interested in making niche beers with extra crap, like mango and pineapple and jalapeños. Neither one of us were big fans of this stuff. I'll take real German beer with only four ingredients any day!
So now that we've solved our freezer issues, we're free to drive on without needing outside power. We're on our way to British Columbia. We are back to boondocking where we want, driving as far as we want and pulling over at a nice spot; no reservations taken, and none needed.
Life is good!
The empty fish ladder
I literally had a mango beer and a jalapeno sour beer in the last month in WI. I do not approve of either.
ReplyDeleteMmmm, grilled salmon and human...
ReplyDeleteGlad to read your freezer issues were resolved. Those poor salmon live a treacherous life, but they do make yummy food options.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the last leg of travels and be safe while book docking. Sending hugs
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