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Finally visiting a ghost town! and photos of the inside of our trailer

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Monday before we packed up I finally took some photos of the inside of the trailer since so many people have asked about it. Its messy, but here you go: Bed slats for the air mattress.  We put a 3in thick gel/foam mattress topper on top of this and then bed sheets and quilts but I do not have a photo of that. We don't leave it this messy when its down and we are driving, that's just when I took the photo. I will try to get photos with the bed set up later but here is a video of the trailer lifting up and down as well  https://youtu.be/vjKTVDBH20g  I tried to wash the engine oil off the trailer at the campsite carwash but it didn't work very well without soap. It seems to be a common thing in the north for carwashes to not have soap. The campsite had coin laundry facilities which were out of order and when i came down the hill to wash the car there was a festiva there! The electrician repairing the laundry uses a festiva as a work vehicle. We talked quite a

Entering Alaska!

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Tuesday june 26. Our alarm went at 8, but it was raining pretty hard and we were tired, so we went back to sleep until 9, then got up, despite the continuing rain.  Julie folded the laundry we'd washed the day before, then we looked around site together, because the rain had slowed to a slow sprinkle. They had quite a few army vehicles and some road equipment the army had used to build the road. When we had arrived at the site they said it was a certain price for an unserviced site and an extra $10/ night for power. We thought that was a little much but they are 'off-grid' here. There is a big diesel generator that runs all night to power the RV's.  We have no idea what this was, anyone know? The generator is inside the sea container We got out of the RV park around noon and came to the snag road junction. We had considered taking a quick drive up to Snag just to say we had been there because it had the coldest recorded temperature in Canada at -63c (-