Forgotten Skagway

I forgot about the town of Skagway that we visited down on the Alaskan coast.  We took at day trip from Whitehorse down to Skagway.  The drive down was beautiful.  You travel through the Yukon, British Columbia and then Alaska to get to Skagway.  You can also get there by ferry since its in the Inside Passage.  Skagway is now a cruise ship town.  All of the cruise ships stop there and the shops cater to the cruising crowd.  

We did find some of the historic sites while we were there.  This old building was made of branches from trees.  Of course the statues depict the men going to the Klondike goldrush up the trail out of Skagway.   We also visited a historic cemetery and saw the spot where a big boulder of gold was found.  You can take a train ride from Skagway to Whitehorse -- its a very pretty ride if you don't want to drive it. 

We are now in Radium Hot Springs just on the back side of Banff.  We should be back in the U.S. tomorrow and can't wait.   We drove part of the Trans Canadian Highway #1 through Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Park (the Canadian Glacier Nat'l Park).  The road is only two lanes with a few passing lanes, lots of up and down and winding roadway.  Not much fun to drive with lots of traffic on it.  We can't wait to see a freeway again.