Sept. 28th Drive to Keno and Carmacks

Today is Caroline's birthday. Caroline Ursula Baker (CUB) was named after the town Oberursel in Germany. As we drove to Keno today we spotted a mother bear and 2 cubs by the roadside. I backed up the car so I could get my camera, but a big truck drove by the bears and scared them. I only got shots of the mother and 1 cub running away. But we got to see a cub on CUB's birthday.

Keno is almost a ghost town. In the summer 28 people live in Keno and work the tourist trade. In the winter, 10 people live there. The town was the home of a silver mine from 1920 to 1988. When the mine shut down the people left and now the whole town is a museum.Things don't rust very quickly in the Yukon.   We had lunch in the Keno hotel and we appeared to be the only tourists in town. The hotel bar was straight out of the sixties. 

Cub

She Bear

Old Truck

Gone bust

The old bar