Driving Top of the World Highway in Class A Motorhome Thru Chicken Alaska | RV Alaska Series #11
#topoftheworldhighway #chickenalaska
Class A Motorhome RV Living: Season 3 EP052 July 15, 2018 Get more of our stuff at themotorhomeexperiment.com/.
In this episode, we roll out of Dawson City, Yukon, over the Top of the World Highway and into Chicken, AK.
Dawson City was an absolute blast and we're really glad we made the stop!
The Top of the World Highway, didn't turn out as bad as everyone had said. I think the dryer conditions made it more palatable. If it was really wet and slick it would prove to be much more challenging!
Beautifuly scenery continues to show up around every corner!
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It's not misinformation, you just timed your arrival perfectly. No wait. Be happy. I got stuck late afternoon for two hours in June 2019 after I hung out in DC all day. Arrived at the border a half hour after it was supposed to close. It was still open but the Welcome to Alaska sign was missing, much to my dismayed surprise.
Just a quicky video (for us) to wet everyone's whistle while we take care of some other business stuff...We hope you enjoy it! Paul & lorena
@windymcallister643
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks again for picking me up! Great to meet you guys.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
6 жыл бұрын
@@windymcallister643 It was our pleasure Josh! I think we just missed you in Homer. Safe travels buddy!
It is interesting to see the cool mining equipment from days gone by. I cannot imagine what life was like back in the mining days.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
I love that stuff...a little too rustic a life for me!
@PidasianHippie
5 жыл бұрын
I agree! Heck, At this point in life, I don't want to even go back to the "hard" life I had as a kid. Just think, one phone in the house, tied to a wall and on a party line so you couldn't use it any time you wanted. TV with only 3 channels. I had such a deprived childhood. 🤣😂🤣
That was beautiful scenery, the sky was so beautifully blue.
That’s is so cool, definitely bucket list so funny I been looking at google map pictures of ur whole trip before watching this and nothing compares like the videos
Never gets boring....safe travels
Great video. Thanks for taking me along, I sure appreciate the ride. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and happy trails.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Joyce! Glad you liked it!
I love seeing all your videos. You should do a video about how your coach held up on the Alaska trip and problems if any you had. You both are living the life I plan to experience some day. I'm so jealous!
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
We will do a recap video after all of the Alaska videos are done. We'll talk about it on our Last Saturday LIVE!! on September 29th, at 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern here on KZread.
Just a FYI you guys are about 3 to 4 weeks behind fellow You Tube Rvers Less junk more travel They did the same top of the world highway and chicken !!!! Also my dad was a winch man on a couple of dredges like you saw there , He worked out of Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, There are videos of the abandoned camp he worked on !!!
Great video!
Hey Guys, we fell behind a bit on your videos. All caught up now. Congrats on getting to Alaska, it's on our bucket list! Not the way you went though, but that was interesting, thanks for taking us along. :)
The Liquor Store used to be the Radio Shack. No, a Real Radio Shack for the Air Strip. It's Changed A Lot. But still the Same. The dredge looks like the old WADE #2. But it was a ways upstream on the Forty Mile River.
Did the realignment of the Top of the World from Eagle cutoff to the boarder with QAP. Was a great job to be on. Took 2 years. Should have seen it before we cut down all the grades and no pavement. Had a pack of wolves stalking my grade hop up by the pull out by the border. We all carried guns working at night....the Canadian border guys did not like that.🤫
@LifeWithPaulLorena
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for getting that done!
I just found your vlog this week and have been binge watching for the last 3 days........great videos. Keep up the great vloging......if there is such a word. LOL......happy trails from the sunny south.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Glad you're here!
Great video.
love the video
In 2003 me and my 3 boys drove up to anchorage AK the boys were in grade school we drove a dodge caravan.. great adventure.. saw the original town of chicken before it burnt down. I missed my turn in Dawson creek so we went 18 hrs longer.. to the top of the world via Dawson city.. it was an adventure we started in wa state. . 2 .5 days.. wish I had taken longer lived there 11 mths and drove back (do to hubby's military orders)
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Sometimes missing a turn, turns into a great adventure! Safe travels!
Great video. We were in Alaska as well and stayed at the same Chevron station in Tok. Have you been noticing the awesome cloud formations. We did and took many pics. Safe travels. We are home here in Montana now.
I really like you video's, they are the best on U-Tube. I like the fact that you show a lot of the roads and highways as well as important information about the stops along the way. I am bringing five other couples on our Alaskan Trip in the summer of 2022, all with RV's. Leaving from Edmonton, Alberta to the Alaskan Highway and then onto Fairbanks, Anchorage, Tok on the return. A total time of six to seven weeks. Any info greatly appreciated.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like them Wayne! I would continue watching the Alaska series. We did some out of the way places that aren't easy to get to, but well worth it! I will say, six to seven weeks is not a lot of time in Alaska. I would try and spend 2 months after crossing into Alaska, minimum. You'll love Alaska! Safe travels!
Really cool again
Very cool video!
Love the info sign about the town of Chicken.
@bobshaw4063
6 жыл бұрын
I liked it also . I paused the video to read the whole story . Very interesting how the town of Chicken got it's name . Also liked the sign behind the Bar .
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
I like to shoot that stuff so you can pause the video like Bob did and read it for yourself. Pretty interesting stuff!
Guy by the Name of "Tony Beets" has TWO working gold dredges(well...the second one was being Rebuilt last I heard?).. he's rebuilt on the TV show "Gold Rush" at Dawson Area Gold Fields....
cool video
Beautiful video. The TV show gold Rush has one of those pieces equipment mining for goal
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Cool!
Hi Lorena and Paul . Beautiful scenery . Where is Kevin & Laura ? Hope they are doing ok . How many miles have you put on Freyja so far ? You guys get around that is for sure . Keep it between the lines and Happy Travels to you both . Cheers !!
Where the FERRY is at in Dawson...did you LOOK to the Right side of that Gravel Pile? THAT'S where Tony Beets has his Private Self Propelled Barge at, Tony has a "Second Gold Dredge" he bought about 100 miles Upstream Piece by Peice to be rebuilt at his Gold Mine Land Claim in the Dawson Area. Pretty COOL watching him do this on TV...THIS SEASON, should be a make or Break Year for Tony Beets on Gold Rush moving the Second Dredge....(cant wait to see it too!) on the Discovery Channel....
@LifeWithPaulLorena
6 жыл бұрын
Neil Mc Neill We don't watch too much TV Neil. We don't know who that is. Sounds like a cool show though!
@Streamer687
6 жыл бұрын
Here ya go, for "Rainy Days?" www.discovery.com/tv-shows/gold-rush/ or this too? kzread.info?search_query=gold+rush+episodes
All of the stores at Chicken are owned by the same person. There is a hallway that connects all the stores so they can attended to by just one or two employees. Not a public hallway.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Aaaah, that makes sense now! Thanks for sharing!
Doncha jus' hate it when your mouth quits!!!!!!!
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Constantly! :)
You get what you give when dealing with people...✌
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
👍😍Loved it. What happened to Josh? One minute you guys had Josh and the next he was gone. Thanks for sharing your journey. Safe travels. 💞
@Inhimwelive
6 жыл бұрын
LovingAtlanta Good question.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
6 жыл бұрын
He was a hitchhiker so that's pretty much how it works. We have him a ride to Tok and he walked off into the sunset! Lol!
@lovingatlanta
6 жыл бұрын
+ The Motorhome Experiment - 😔I understand & people want their anonymity & privacy too. I hitch hike with you & Lorena all the time and you guys don’t even know I’m there...😃🤪 I’m always grateful for the ride too. 💞 It was wonderful of you guys to offer him a lift. It would have been a terrific video shot of the back of him walking off into the sunset. I hope he watches your videos.
@Inhimwelive
6 жыл бұрын
He is now in Homer.
I have watched the series of Alaska and gave them big thumbs up. I have a 35-foot Winnie and was wondering what kind of tires you have on the front of yours. I still have the original 2000 year tires on mine and was told to replace them before i cross the country. any advice?
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
We have 19.5" Hankook tires all around. We just replaced them in February in Arizona. If your tires are cracking on the sidewalls, you definitely want to replace them! If they aren't cracking and they still have tread on them...keep on rolling! Please check with a professional because I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous!
Read it again. I said it was during a time of flooding. I would imagine that after the water went down it was an easy crossing.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Aaaah gotcha! Yeah, the flow of water and the breaking up of the ice pack determine how all of that works up there. Pretty cool stuff!
Giddy up! First baby
@LifeWithPaulLorena
6 жыл бұрын
Nicely done!
I'm catching up on videos and just saw you showing all the dirt on the rig - you didn't mention anything in the motor. Was wondering - would the air filter have been affected?
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
I'm sure it will...we'll check and change it when we arrive back in the lower 48 next week.
What happened to the crossing? When we were there in 2010 it was during a time of extreme flooding and we were not able to go from Chicken to the Yukon river crossing.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
What do you mean Arnold? The crossing was pretty easy for us.
top of the world could have used more footage it is a beautiful trip
Any costs to these ferry rides you are taking?
@LifeWithPaulLorena
6 жыл бұрын
Mike Dean No sir.
Was this road muddy too? How was this road for driving with a Class A? Would you recommend driving a diesel pusher up there?
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
It wasn't bad because it was dry. If it was wet it would have been a different story. We saw larger rigs up there. It all depends on your comfort level and your thirst for adventure! We love to stretch our comfort zone on a daily basis! Safe travels!
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Could you guys share the route you took on a map? We’d like to go up that route but wondered where you jumped on 4 at as we’re thinking Watson Lake. Thanks bunches
@LifeWithPaulLorena
Жыл бұрын
We never traveled on Highway 4. We started on the Alcan Highway in Dawson Creek. Took it all the way to Whitehorse and then took Highway 2 north. We also did a detour up the Dempster Highway to Tuktoyuktuk before continuing onto Alaska. Our Alaska series shows every where we went.
@justjenkinaround5116
Жыл бұрын
@@LifeWithPaulLorena thank you so much. We thought maybe you had gone up 4 and a good thing we found out otherwise lol.
Is this not out of order for your video's? I believe I have already seen you in Alaska before this one.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
6 жыл бұрын
Kali's Mom That was the first we crossed into Alaska. The others have been us making our way there.
@urofseron
6 жыл бұрын
No, pay attention. They even talk about crossing into Alaska for the first time.
What did the campground cost?
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
2 nights were $80.64, so $40 a night
So you're leaving Tok.......does that mean that you're "One "tok" over the line".......?
No Harm, No Foul with the Drone, Just "BIRDS" not used being used to a drone checking it out dude ....They prob caught some More "BUGS" while they were Flying right? :)
You are brave to pick up a hitch hiker. Guess being from a Chicago suburb makes me paranoid to do that. Glad he was a nice fella. Great video!!
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
I had seen him in town a day or so earlier. He was a very nice kid!
@BreakTime10101
2 жыл бұрын
@@LifeWithPaulLorena I just found your videos. Where did you drop him off at? Was he American or Canadian?
What happened to Eric?
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Eric?? Do you mean the hitchhiker Josh? As quickly as he came into our life, he left. When we arrived in Tok, he said thanks and he was off to his next adventure.
More than 30+ years ago I picked up a hitchhiker on my way to work. Turns out he had head lice and I ended up getting lice. I haven't picked up a hitchhiker since.
@Inhimwelive
6 жыл бұрын
Scenic Driveways you got headlice from someone riding in your car? Me thinks there is more to that story.
@LifeWithPaulLorena
6 жыл бұрын
Scenic Driveways Head lice transfer usually requires head to head contact but who knows. We have so much human contact every day I'm sure it could happen anywhere.
@Harold710
2 жыл бұрын
Yuk
It's been the best part of 40 years and the ferry still looks the same. Tok,..... You take a tok maaan. Ummm, back in the day and all
Free car wash
@LifeWithPaulLorena
6 жыл бұрын
Wandering Travels If it wasn't more dirt road! Lol!
No my business but I was concerned with you guys picking up a hitchhiker. I wasn’t there but just bad vibe and could have been a bad situation guys. Be safe please
@urofseron
6 жыл бұрын
How could you have a bad vibe from it when you weren’t even there? Don’t be so judgmental.
@wanderingtravels2488
6 жыл бұрын
No problem plenty others to watch Later
@wanderingtravels2488
6 жыл бұрын
Guess the fact My step mother was murdered in a church Feeding a homeless man does that to a person.
@urofseron
6 жыл бұрын
Wandering Travels Later
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
I had seen this young man in town a day or so earlier. He was backpacking all over the world and he was a very nice kid. If I had gotten weird vibes from him, I wouldn't have picked him up, it's that simple. Would I recommend it for a single woman traveling alone...probably not.What's funny is Josh's dad reached out to us and thanked us for picking him up because he was concerned about Josh getting into an RV with two strangers! Different perspectives.
Pride Parade?????? gay/lesbian???
@LifeWithPaulLorena
5 жыл бұрын
Yes a pride parade has gay and lesbian people, but some people are just there to support a person's choice to live their life the way that makes them feel the best.