Day from "H"

July 10 – What a day!  This is another “will not do again” day.  We were up at 4:45 to be ready to leave at 6:15. Today they had us line up in numerical order and we are 8.  Bill wanted to follow one of the Daves, so that was Ok’d.  Three of the RV’s did not get up since they stayed at the bar and partied and could not get up this morning.  Everyone has the name and address of the campground so they were on their own.

We headed to the ferry crossing in numerical order.  It takes about 15 minutes for the ferry to cross the river, unload the vehicles and come back.  There were 2 small RV’s in the line beside us and I think 4 -5 cars showed up.  They can’t put but 1 big RV on the ferry at a time but they can put 2 small ones beside it or cars etc.  We crossed on the 5^th trip over.  As they landed on the other side they lined up along the exit road so once we all made the crossing we left together.  It was a very tight squeeze for me to get the RV over and in to close the front and back parts of the ferry.  They did put a small RV and 2 small cars on with us.  Once we crossed I had to wait for the small vehicles to exit before I could steer to the middle of the gang plank to get off.  We waited for the last of the group then we hit the road.

What a road it was!  We drove most of the day on hard pack small gravel and dirt.  We had some paved road but it was Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride today for sure.  We spent 99% of the drive going up and down mountains in the rain and the road would widen and narrow and if there was passing traffic it was sketchy to get to far over to the edge.  Bill was quite a nervous wreak that I was going to go over the edge.  He didn’t think about I would be going down the hill as well so I was very careful!  It was a scary drive and bumpy as “H”!  We had some stretches of asphalt but that was few and far between.

It was almost 6 hours to drive 110 miles.  So that tells you what it was like!  The destination was Chicken, AK.  It’s a tiny little town that was a gold rush place.  The campground has only electric and that is 20 amp.  The spaces are all drive thru which is nice and that are much wider than our last place.  We were told to fill our water tanks before arriving as they have no under ground water here.  At 18 inches deep the ground is frozen year ‘round.  Their water is trucked in.  There is also no sewer but they have a dump station.

Once everyone arrived and was settled in and washed their front windows we went to a local tiny place for a dinner of caribou brats with either potato salad or slaw.  They had homemade pies and cinnamon buns.  I had a piece of cherry pie and Bill went with blueberry.  Very good! 

We rode with Dave and Donna so we tootled around a bit after checking out the tiny gift shop. Time to settle in for the night as it’s raining which puts me to sleep!