{"id":21790,"date":"2010-05-08T20:44:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2016-09-15T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T08:44:07","slug":"a-change-of-plans-and-a-dawson-city-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-change-of-plans-and-a-dawson-city-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"A Change of Plans&#8230; and a Dawson City Homecoming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got twenty kilometres up the Klondike highway today and decided to push on to Dawson, then do a circuit by toad and tent in late June or early July when more things will be open. It&#8217;s been a pretty lonely winter and I just couldn&#8217;t wait to see my friends again! It was a long, hard haul as the trip from Whitehorse to Dawson always is, and the numerous frost heaves have left me terrified to open any of my cabinets!!!<\/p>\n<p>As expected, everyone was shocked to see me pull in today and there were so many hugs all around! I washed the rig and then got squared away in what will probably be a temporary spot. I don&#8217;t care, it has sewer! \ud83d\ude00 And I can get online with my Telus key!<\/p>\n<p>An invitation to go out for a drink came quickly from two of my French-speaking friends, so we headed over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombaypeggys.com\/\">Bombay Peggy&#8217;s<\/a>, a cozy pub I never got around to visiting last summer! I savoured a Yukon Gold as we each three shared our story of our winter adventures. Oh my, how I missed French! I think I spoke it twice this winter and that&#8217;s it. \ud83d\ude41 Reading books and watching movies wasn&#8217;t nearly enough; there&#8217;s something to be said for a good gab fest in your native tongue!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put on some laundry and will be heading over to the public showers since I have a ton of stuff packed in mine and there is debris scattered all over the dressing room floor. I&#8217;m too wiped to even start to sort it all out. At least, I&#8217;ve had a hot shower every night since Les played with my water heater in Prince George. The water heater is still misbehaving, but I can coax it into submission thanks to his adjustments. He and it must have had Words. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe that was just a few days ago and that a week ago this day I awoke in Nanaimo! I&#8217;ve done 3,400km in that time. I didn&#8217;t mean to go so quickly and I honestly wasn&#8217;t &#8216;rushing.&#8217; I really savoured this drive, much more so than the one last fall, and I had fun driving the RV for the first time! It was an awesome trip and an equally awesome summer lies before me. I&#8217;m really going to be able to get back on track financially and maybe even get some painting done.<\/p>\n<p>Everything on my journey from Campbell River went well with the minor hiccups of the fuse and the windshield hardly worth mentioning. I boondocked solidly except when I had a chance at free power and lacked for nothing; I had all the heat and hot water I wanted, and when there was cell service I got work done. I read a lot, cooked a bit, and really got a taste of what life with the new layout is going to be like (even if I missed my dishwasher!). This week my good life has had no shortage of good days and I am the happiest that I have been in a very, very, very long time.<\/p>\n<p>And, so, a second Klondike summer begins!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got twenty kilometres up the Klondike highway today and decided to push on to Dawson, then do a circuit by toad and tent in late June or early July when more things will be open. It&#8217;s been a pretty lonely winter and I just couldn&#8217;t wait to see my friends again! 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