Fiona and Devon's Amazing Yukon Adventure: Keno to Dawson City

With a tear in her eye and pain in her back, Fiona left her beloved Keno City behind. Keno was spectacular and likely the best preserved Gold/Silver Rush city remaining today. The drive from the Silver Trail to the Klondike claim city was remarkable in its beauty and for a change, its short distance. The road up to Dawson City is quite memorable for just how much the gold industry has reaped havoc on the landscape. Pile upon mountains of rocky debris line either side of the valley and go on for as far as the eye can see. On the approach you drive by the road that takes you out to Dredge #4 and the original claim at Bonanza creek; both of which we plan to see before our stay here is done.
Dawson City itself is caught between a time warp and the necessity to accommodate those android bus/boat tourists. They swarm the local businesses on Front Street in mad droves, desperately clambering towards tacky souvenirs and predetermined photo opportunities like cows to slaughter, unaware of their surroundings and inevitable fate; sadly the pretty cows get killed while our maundering friends live out the rest of their days comfuzzled. I personally love them. They are a subspecies that is well worth studying. Like grotesque overweight zombies or evangelical Christians, they speak in tongues – more mutterings and huffin’/puffin’ (likely from exhaustion) than anything that could be mistaken for a dialect – I wish there were more of them in Abbo. But I digress.
We designed our own walking tour of Dawson today which was both brilliant in conception and execution. We walked up and down the streets. Genius! The buildings are restored relics drizzled with a few derelict structures; a photographers dream. Next we hopped the ferry to the other side of the Yukon River to photophize the Ship Graveyard. Wow. What do you do when you are finished with your Sternwheeler? You beach it and let it rot. Oustanding. As one would suspect we spent a few rolls of film there before returning to the seething metropolis for dinner. Tonight we conquer the Midnight Dome and tomorrow the Dempster.

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