Driving the Alaska Highway in the winter
I've just come down the Alaska Highway from Whitehorse to Dawson Creek (and on to Hinton where I'm house-sitting for my son and his wife), and have posted 2 lengthy blogs with a total of 66 photos of ...
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I am a little surprised not seeing any pictures on the blog of the remodeled and extended portions of Rancheria Lodge within the restaurant, as they did a surpurb job.
Linda is a great cook too (a person who will simply not take a vacation), and when her husband decides to help out in the kitchen man he can really cook some great grub.
Rancheria is one of the longest established roadhouses still goin at it today, as roadhouses along the Alaska Highway have become a dying breed of business.
I only wished Teslin was more distant from Rancheria as I generally will stop at the Yukon Motel Restaurant too, as when both places are open while passing thru during the day I will stop at Rancheria....if I roll in the area during the evening hours before 930pm I will stop in Teslin and have dinner there from either direction.....After an all day sidetrip affair in Atlin last August, I timed it perfectly to have dinner and overnight in Teslin (as they let me hang out and watch the CFL game on the big screen with them during closing hours) and had breakfast in Rancheria the following day.
When Pops in White River was running the lodge and restaurant in that era, he had this $8.95 sourdough breakfast on the menu that catered for two people to share.....Some younger big teenage kid had ordered it and Pops told him he might want to reconsider ordering the jr. sourdough instead as he warned him that was a two stomach serving, but the kid insisted on it stating he would eat it all....so Pops told him if he could eat it all in one setting, it was on the house.
Everyone laughed when the kid finally gave in and surrendered after eating roughly three quarters of the serving.
I still miss Toad to this day after he retired and sold Toad River Lodge in 1999 as for less than $30 you can have a comfortable room, bed, and a hearty hot breakfast which was the first lodge I ever stayed at in March 1985 (well before my RV days) as I learned real quick about budgeting more on future trips by eating a hot meal when travelling on the Alaska Highway summer or winter which is a must while building a better morale for your body, compared to stretching limited funds getting by with canned food and cold sandwiches on the road.
I sure appreciate the few roadhouses that are left in the far north that are runned by great people as they still provide for the traveler, despite the hard work and overhead they deal with on a daily basis, especially the places that are located without a grid whether seasonal or year round.
Linda is a great cook too (a person who will simply not take a vacation), and when her husband decides to help out in the kitchen man he can really cook some great grub.
Rancheria is one of the longest established roadhouses still goin at it today, as roadhouses along the Alaska Highway have become a dying breed of business.
I only wished Teslin was more distant from Rancheria as I generally will stop at the Yukon Motel Restaurant too, as when both places are open while passing thru during the day I will stop at Rancheria....if I roll in the area during the evening hours before 930pm I will stop in Teslin and have dinner there from either direction.....After an all day sidetrip affair in Atlin last August, I timed it perfectly to have dinner and overnight in Teslin (as they let me hang out and watch the CFL game on the big screen with them during closing hours) and had breakfast in Rancheria the following day.
When Pops in White River was running the lodge and restaurant in that era, he had this $8.95 sourdough breakfast on the menu that catered for two people to share.....Some younger big teenage kid had ordered it and Pops told him he might want to reconsider ordering the jr. sourdough instead as he warned him that was a two stomach serving, but the kid insisted on it stating he would eat it all....so Pops told him if he could eat it all in one setting, it was on the house.
Everyone laughed when the kid finally gave in and surrendered after eating roughly three quarters of the serving.
I still miss Toad to this day after he retired and sold Toad River Lodge in 1999 as for less than $30 you can have a comfortable room, bed, and a hearty hot breakfast which was the first lodge I ever stayed at in March 1985 (well before my RV days) as I learned real quick about budgeting more on future trips by eating a hot meal when travelling on the Alaska Highway summer or winter which is a must while building a better morale for your body, compared to stretching limited funds getting by with canned food and cold sandwiches on the road.
I sure appreciate the few roadhouses that are left in the far north that are runned by great people as they still provide for the traveler, despite the hard work and overhead they deal with on a daily basis, especially the places that are located without a grid whether seasonal or year round.
