{"id":23206,"date":"2009-08-19T22:58:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T05:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2016-09-11T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T16:32:00","slug":"sticker-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/sticker-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticker Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my first time since leaving southern BC that I got real honest to goodness sticker shock. I thought I had some when I found out that kitty litter sells for a dollar a pound up here, but this was worse!<\/p>\n<p>I ran out of propane on my onboard tank and, suspecting that propane would be &#8216;pricy&#8217; up here, I decided to live off my 30 pounder until I get back to Whitehorse. I therefore had the 30 pounder filled today and the bill came to&#8230; thirty-six dollars.<\/p>\n<p>All winter in Surrey, I filled that tank for twenty dollars. My <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=1267\">onboard tank was last filled<\/a> for thirty-seven dollars in Coquitlam!<\/p>\n<p>OUCH!!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just grateful that I was able to go three full months with my onboard tank and an additional couple of weeks with the dregs of the 30 pounder, so I know that that I&#8217;m in no dire straits to fill up the onboard tank and that the auxiliary tank will get me back to civilization!<\/p>\n<p>(not that Dawson isn&#8217;t civilization, of course&#8230; \ud83d\ude00 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my first time since leaving southern BC that I got real honest to goodness sticker shock. I thought I had some when I found out that kitty litter sells for a dollar a pound up here, but this was worse! I ran out of propane on my onboard tank and, suspecting that propane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,1126,635,5,3,1040],"tags":[1469],"class_list":["post-23206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-dawson-city-yukon-canada-travel","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-yukon","tag-klondike-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}