Monday, July 28, 2008

Dawson City Music Festival


Rain, music, mud, fun and ferries on the Yukon River sums up last weekend. Beck and I along with our friends Brook and Andrea took a four day road trip to Dawson City in the Yukon to get away and listen to some live music. Being the dirt bags that we are we pitched a tent down by the river in the government campground (not under a bridge). One of the unique things about Dawson, besides being a gold rush town isolated in the Canadian arctic, is that instead of using a bridge to span the river to connect the Top of the World Highway there is a free ferry that runs nonstop back and fourth. Our routine was to wake up, eat, ride the ferry to town, listen to music, ride the ferry back to the campground for lunch, ride the ferry back to town for music, walk around town, ride the ferry back again to sleep in a soggy tent. Oh yeah, and it rained the whole time we were there.