June 17
I am staying around Whitehorse for the day and learning a little of it's history. Whitehorse was a resting place for the prospectors during the Klondike gold rush and was famous for the rapids in the Yukon River that claimed the lives of many would be miners. The prospectors either tried the rapids or portaged around them, in either case where the town of Whitehorse sits was a resting place for most everyone headed to Dawson from Skagway. 
Tomorrow I plan to ride to Skagway, AK to see where the miners coming from the west coast of the US disembarked and began the overland trek to the gold in Dawson. Wednesday my plan is to go to Dawson...spend several days there and via the Top of the World Hwy go into Alaska for real...more shall be revealed.
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