Another Day Off

Today’s details have to start with late yesterday. We are staying at the Sourdough Campground in Tok AK and their “claim to fame” is the pancake toss held every evening at 7:00PM. It is a fun mixer to bring fellow travelers together and socialize. Anyone who wants gets 2 opportunities to toss an old pancake into a 5 gal bucket about 20 ft away. If they are willing to sing a song, they can have a 3rd chance. Winners get a free breakfast the next morning. While a lot of joking goes on there weren’t a whole lot of winners and I think there was only one case of both husband and wife winning – that was US last night so our morning started off great! And neither of us had to sing.


Since our mail had not arrived as of yesterday, we planned to take it easy today and check back at the Post Office this afternoon. We took the opportunity to do our laundry and do some extra reading.

We also washed the car again; we will wash the motorhome as we leave tomorrow. Our mail still hadn’t come in as of today, so I filled out a card to have it forwarded to Paige’s Uncle Phil. We will be at his place in about 5 or 6 days, after North Pole, Fairbanks, and Denali Park.

Phil had suggested a local restaurant to us, and we’ve just returned. The appetizer plate of breaded mushrooms that Phil recommended was HUGE. We shared with a number of our campground neighbors who also happened to be here tonight.

As long as someone has asked for our weather observations, others might be interested too, so here is what we’ve been seeing. The past few days have generally been quite cloudy with scattered sprinkles. As we were pulling off the road 2 days ago, the skies opened up and dumped a lot of water in a short time, which made the dismal Taylor/Top of the World combination dangerous as well as miserable. Sprinkles kept the dust down, but heavy rain means soft, slick mud all over everything. Yesterday had heavy cloud cover without a lot more rain, and temps in the mid 50s. The members of a Newmar caravan, who pulled in here yesterday, said it was too foggy for them to see anything but the mud and potholes. There is a reason that Tok is said to be the RV Wash capital of Alaska.

Today, on the other hand, was gorgeous with a clear sky and temps close to 70. Not far south of us, we can see the tops of the Wrangell Mountains which stretch for over 150 wilderness miles to the Gulf of Alaska

Tomorrow's forecast is for temps near 80.