August 5, 2011
This is our last day in Skagway and it is a free day. We had lunch at the Red Onion, formerly a famous brothel in Skagway. For $5 for 15 minutes you could take a tour of the upstairs brothel. There were a dozen 10'x 10' feet rooms, one for each gal. Back in the day there was a hole in each floor with a copper pipe that carried their money directly to the till downstairs. Downstairs there was a doll for each gal and when they had a customer, the bar tender laid it on its back. When the money
came downstairs, the bartender set the doll up to indicate she was ready for her next customer.
We went shopping downtown. The gals from the Days of 98 Show were hollering out the second floor windows of the building where we saw the play a couple of nights before. They were hollering and taunting visitors below on the boardwalk to come and see their show. I yipped back at them and they recognized us as part of the Adventure Caravan group that was at their show a couple of nights ago.
We attended the briefing where we were told not to hook up our towed vehicle until we reach the top of the hill. We have a long drive tomorrow as we must climb up and over that mountain on the only highway into the city.
Later we skipped out on a pot luck as it was windy and cold. It must have broken up early as it was raining when we returned and no one could be found.
We stopped at the bridge to see salmon swimming upstream, tried to find a road to the cemetery we saw on the train ride, and swung by the harbor. There was a Disney cruise ship in port. Later when we were back at the campground we heard the ship give a blast on its horn, and then it played "when you wish upon a star",not just once, but 2 or 3 times.
Just a little curiosity -- a building decorated with nothing but driftwood.
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