Friday, August 16, 2013

8-14-2013 Kenny Lake to Tok



We arrived back at the RVs about 8 pm, cooked a few hot dogs and retired to the motor homes to recap the events of the day. We down loaded all the pictures that we had taken that day and began to get caught up on the blog. For those of you have not kept a journal or kept up with a blog daily it is not a easy task. After spending about 12 to 14 hours sightseeing and picture taking it is hard to recap all the events that have happened. We collaborate every day. Bob writes the initial blog and Sharon cleans it up and adds the detail. Then you have to select what pictures you feel that best represents what you have written. Or sometimes it's easier to select the pictures and write the story around them.  If you do not stay on top of it you will get behind very quickly.

We departed Kenny Lake RV park headed to Chicken but we ended up in Tok due to a few issues with Don’s RV.  About 40 miles from Tok the engine quit running. We had experienced a problem earlier in the week and thought that by replacing the batteries it would cure the problems. But it did not. Don called a tow truck to haul him to Tok. That was the nearest town. Not that it had the services we needed but it did offer a good RV park and a place to evaluate the problem. After a few calls to the chassis manufacture, we were able to get it started and make it to Tok. The tow truck did follow him back to Tok as insurance.  But part of the story also is, where he broke down we had no cell service.  If there hadn't been a friendly, helpful guy wondering why motorhomes were on the road in front of his house, we wouldn't even have had phone service to call the tow truck!!!  The Alaska State Trooper had stopped and radioed that we were there, and told us there was cell service up at mile 116 ahead of us!!

We have selected a few more picture from the day before so you can enjoy some more of our Flight-seeing
adventure.











At the Bonanza Mine.  This mining building was so high up in the mountains!! 




Look closely.  Carnegie 1905.  Railroad track

Trumpet swan finding food

Trumpet swan and ducky friends

Fish wheels

Our first sunset in a long time


And the moon setting, too

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