Sunday, June 29, 2008

This is Linda dictating to Ila. We jumped off our beds at 8 am or so this morning at the B&B in Skagway. Just so you know, it was the White House. No, we didn't see President Bush. After dressing, we had a nice continental breakfast. While eating we visited with other guests. One couple was from Topeka, KS and the man had graduated from Drake University. She was originally from Missouri. They were talking about how impressed they were with the Drake BB team this past year. We went to church. We were three of the congregation of 19 at the Skagway Assembly of God church. Their pastor had previously preached in Missouri and Nebraska. We met a lady there from Ames who was quite friendly. Then after church, we proceeded to check out the city of Skagway. First we went to see about taking the train trip on Monday. It was not as we had anticipated so we skipped it. Since we weren't going to ride the train on Monday, we didn't really need our motel we had reserved in Skagway. I managed to get it cancelled. The man was not real nice so I lied when I left by thanking him for his kindness. Then we went to see the seals we had heard so much about but since we were there, they weren't. We decided we should work more on our Dale Carnegie course so we proceeded to enter a total of three eating establishments, look around and leave. You may be surprised to hear that one of these establishments specialized in hard pack ice cream and fudge. Even we have our price. Maybe we are getting a little picky. Then we decided it was time to leave town but first we needed gas so we looked for the gas station. This city that has thousands of tourists every year has one gas pump, which proved very hard to find but we finally found it after driving by it several times. Yes you heard that right. One gas pump. Keep in mind, Skagway is a major tourist trap complete with boardwalks and thousands of tourists who walk whenever and wherever they want to in the street. Then we decided it was time for us to get out of town and we literally headed for the hills/mountains as some might say. About an hour out of Skagway (about 2 pm), we left Alaska for the last time. It was a really pretty drive to Carcross. We took a driving tour of Carcross. We also stopped at Caribou Crossing but decided to not spend the money to go through it. We are staying tonight in Teslin, Yukon. We are heading down the Cassier Highway tomorrow. It will be a long day's drive. More than likely we will NOT have cell phone service until we reach Vancouver. We are pleasantly surprised to have the internet service tonight. We didn't even ask if it was available but when we turned on the computer, there it was, so are updating.