An untenable decision

Well, it’s like that classic line in the Disney movie, Rescuers Down Under, that Judd and I still quote to each other, upon making a tough decision:  “more rattlesnakes, less quicksand.” We chose the only Canadian Highway to the Arctic Sea because of the wild fires in Alaska. We’ve since had two chinks in our windshield and double flat tires. Double. I mean two at the same time. With one spare. In the middle of the center of no where. ZERO cell service. Seriously, look it up if you can find it: We were half way between Eagle Plains, Yukon and Fort MacPherson, Northwest Territories.  How to get out of THUS mess with no AAA car service (we’re not in Kansas anymore...) .......

Last night we camped at Engineer Creek, a few kilometers outside Dawson City. Another pristine Canadian campground— we got in late afternoon as we did post office and re-supply chores in Dawson all morning. We got out of the truck to set up camp and there was a conflagration of hungry mosquitoes to usher us into the evening. We made use of our Ben’s head nets and a new fangled Thermacell mosquito retardant and made it through dinner. Judd got to wet a line and I got to pan for gold. No fish—no gold.....yet, We noted the sun lasted about 23 hours but we weren’t above the Arctic Circle yet.

Now we are.

SO, many south travelers offered to help. Do we send one of us with one tire? Do we wait til someone has capacity to take two of us and 2 tires? I packed a day pack with criticalities—raisins-Chocolate, books,  phone charger. When someone actually could portage 2 of us and two tires— we jumped in his truck at 3:00 and I started to fret that we hadn’t brought toothbrushes and old-people-pills, lest we ended up on a garage floor overnight. 

We got to the south garage by 5:00– they fixed two tires —one with TWO defects—an all time record! And a nice guy going north agreed to take us and our tires north. So here we are— in the a Arctic Circle—the sun will not set!

And that repaired tire is leaking again....

Pics to follow

Maybe