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Dawson City, Yukon Territory
On July 16, 2008, we arrived in Dawson City and stayed 2 nights at the Westmark Inn. We discovered the Midnight Sun Hotel, about 2 blocks away, that served very nice meals with reasonable prices - and the people were enjoyable to talk with. The first evening's entertainment was at Diamond Tooth Gertie's for a show with the Gold Rush Girls. This was the joint that enticed the Stampeder's to bet and lose most of their money. On July 17, Kirsten and John booked a coach tour on the Dempster Highway through Tombstone
Territorial Park. The park is sub-arctic tundra. Animals we saw were: golden eagle, long tailed jaeger, female moose, trumpet swans, ptarmigan, musrat in small lake, red fox cubs, yellow webler. The most common plant we saw was the Fireweed – epilobium angustifolium latifolium. The plant was all over Alaska. After returning to Dawson City we went up the hill at 7 p.m. to the Robert Service cabin for readings and to hear about his life history. July 18
was a light rain as we transferred to the
Yukon Queen II riverboat on
the Yukon River for 100 mile boat
trip to Eagle,
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