This part of the journey could be called a little boring and lonely as there was practically nothing other then the occasional tumbled down ancient business along the road. There was hardly any traffic. The day was gloomy and overcast but it was warm enough and scenic enough to make it a little interesting.
One of the numerous lakes along the way.
After driving 7-8 hours, I was in no mood to keep at it and when I saw this RV park along the road, even tho it was 4:30 in the afternoon, I pulled in and paid the fee for the night. The guy that took my money was Chinese and didn’t understand a word of English other then the amount of money he wanted. Every question I asked was answered with a yes, when I came back to complain of the outright lies he told me, like he said, “Yes” when I asked if they had 30 amp electric, he had (or pretended to have) no idea what I was talking about. They had nothing at the RV sites, no electric, no water, no sewer, and they certainly didn’t have Wi-Fi like he told me. They did have a dump station, but also a water source with a sign put up by the provincial government that said the water was undrinkable. The owner hires these people from China, they don’t speak English, then uses them as virtual slaves to run his business out here in the boondocks. Or so I surmised. It looked like there were 3 Chinese immigrants working here. Not that there’s anything wrong with all this, it’s just that the owner could have a printed sheet to pass out to campers telling them what’s up. The owner is a douche.
But the asking price was low, I didn’t want to drive any further, the lake was beautiful, so we stayed. There were several nicely remodeled cabins there, and a very nice bathroom with showers. One problem was they only started the generator (genset) for electricity in the shower room or cabins in the evening or the morning on request, since it was late in a very slow season. That’s all they had for electricity at this large campground, a big diesel generator, which was kind of noisy. None of the cabins were occupied and only 3 of the RV spaces had vehicles in them. They did fire it up for themselves to watch TV after it got dark. Dan went over for a shower while it was still light out so they didn’t have to fire up the genset just for him.
The lake where we decided to stay the night.
And another view of the lake.
Here's a look back into the park after we got settled at our site.
Here's where we eventually parked for the night. A nice spot right on the lake.
Suddenly, it turned calm so I grabbed my camera and got these shots of the lake.
Nearing sunset and some actual sunshine peeking under the clouds. Didn't see any of that all day.
The gap...this was very cool in person, this shot doesn't do the view justice.
Although we didn’t have any services, it was a pleasant stay here. The owners have spent allot of money on rebuilding here, hope they have enough in the old bank account to hang on and weather this economic storm. I know up in Fairbanks, our RV traffic was down 40%. Can’t imagine these people doing better then us considering how far from any major town and how far off the beaten path they are.