Tuesday, June 6, 2006     We decided to stay 2 nights in Haines.   We arrived last night and had dinner and crashed.   Skip became ill so he was in bed all day Tuesday.  I went to the store to buy milk and bread.  Now talk about a shock!!  Milk was $4.99 a gallon and I bought the cheapest bread (store brand) in the store for $3.40 a loaf.  I went back and baked brownies and made Skip lunch.  Since he was just sleeping I decided to sightsee by myself.  I did a little shopping and bought myself a t-shirt and the neatest caribou antler buttons for a sweater I’m knitting.  They are made from naturally shed antlers.  Since this isn’t a high volume tourist town I was able to talk with all of the shopkeepers and learn about the area.  Still on an adventure by myself, I drove 20 miles out to the Bald Eagle Preserve.  Not seeing any eagles and realizing I had driven far enough, I turned into a turnoff and was turning off when I looked up and there perched ontop of a tree was an eagle.  I took several pictures and then headed back to town.  By early evening, Skip was feeling better and we went out to the Bamboo Room for dinner.  The restaurant is not a Chinese restaurant as the name sounds but just a regular American café.  It was named Bamboo because there was at one time a bamboo curtain that separated the saloon from the café.  We had a dinner of halibut and fries.  On the way back to the Elks lodge, we saw a Safari motorhome and sitting on the passengers lap was an English Springer Spaniel (liver and white in color like Lucas).  We followed them and then stopped and visited with them for a little while.  They were staying about 1 block from us.

Wednesday, June 7, 2006    Up early and on the road by 8 am.   We drove north and through the Bald Eagle Preserve where we saw an eagle perched in a tree.  The trip was really nice…mountains, emerald colored lakes, bear along the roadway and soaring eagles.  We went back into Canada.   We learned what frost heaves really mean in Canada .  The roads were like being on a roller coaster but worse.  We watched the vehicles ahead of us bounce up into the air and back down so we knew what was happening to us.  We stopped at the Haines Highway Summit to walk the dog and take a picture.  Also, there was a couple who were bike riding from Whitehorse to Haines.  Very hardy souls…doing it in an RV is tough but doing it on bicycles is amazing.  We took their picture and they took ours.  We went through customs again.  The roads greatly improved in Alaska.  We saw another black bear and Sue was able to get a picture.  We drove to Tok, Alaska where we stopped at the Sourdough RV Park.  Luckily for us they were beginning to serve dinner.  Skip had beef stew and I had chili with reindeer sausage.  The dinner was served in sourdough bread bowls.  After dinner the owner sang a couple songs and then the real entertainment began.  You had a chance to win a free breakfast.  Anytime we "seniors" can get something for free we are there!  We participated in a pancake tossing contest.  No one was able to put throw the pancakes into the bucket.  There were people there from all over the states plus Austria, Australia, Germany, Holland and Canada.  It was a lot of fun.  When we returned to the RV we noticed that the bikes were leaning on top of the car.  The bike rack did not survive the rough roads.  It was broken.  Skip looked it over decided you could fix it...tomorrow.  Another "senior" thing...if it needs fixing we can do it tomorrow.