Steamed into Skagway, Alaska population ~900...looks like a 'cowboy' town, with a few t shirt and gift shops added, but I don't think it's changed much in 100+ years. I did find a NewYawkTimes and WSJ at the Skaguay Newsstand...
Skagway is famous/infamous, as the embarkation point for the thousands of men that tried to make the hundreds of miles walk/climb/float to the Klondike Dawson River Gold Rush of ~1897. Most never made it more than a few miles up the Chilkoot Trail...many never made it back, alive. A few years later it was all over. Reads like the Mkt in any decade of late.
V & I had a car rental reserved in 'downtown' Skagway, and we got off the damn boat at 7:00, walked into town and the car joint, (lil' shack in pics), and motored north on famous Rt 2, out of Alaska, towards Fraser BC, and into the Yukon Territory, Canada. We had a ~2006 PT Cruiser with a couple hundred thousand miles on it, a spider web windshield, crap brakes, etc. But, it ran like a top.
She drove most of the day, and we saw some remarkable scenery in the high taiga 'forest' of stunted trees, permafrost, glacier lakes, etc., of the Yukon. We ate late lunch on the way back in Caribou Crossing, where caribou/reindeer still migrate by the hundreds of thousands twice a year. We saw maybe 5 other cars all day, being a few hundred miles north of 'anywhere'...
We rolled back to town and lucked out getting a helicopter tour & landing to the famous John Muir Glacier. (Our previous several days heli tours had all been cancelled due to rain & wind.) Those set of On the Glacier Pics next...
It's hell putting up pics with .4, as in point 4 Mbps, upload speed.
Thanks for looking!
BR, TheRoadGeezers