March 13, 20242 yr OK, folks, before you get any other ideas...🙂...I wish to make it clear, right up front, that (Chicken/Eagle/Mayo) are actually the names of towns and villages in the Alaska and Yukon Territory...near the Canada-US border. After recently arriving in Fairbanks from Anchorage (please see one of my previous posts), today, I wished to wrap up my explorations by visiting a few other locales in the heart of Yukon Territory, to the east of Fairbanks. "Chicken" is a tiny Alaska Town 200 miles of east of Fairbanks, with a century of Gold Rush history behind it. "Eagle" is another Alaska town, located southeast of Fairbanks, on the bank of the famous Yukon River that gave name to this region (you'll see this river in many of my pictures below). Finally, "Mayo" is a village in Yukon, Canada, also associated with Gold discoveries in the Yukon Territory, and named after an explorer and settler called "Alfred Mayo". Please find 20 images from my trip, as I depart from the Dawson City Airport (CYDA) in Yukon (Canada), situated along the equally famous Klondike River (seen soon after I'm airborne), that gave its name to the Klondike Gold Rush, and closer to home, also named, in the local grocer's freezer, the (delicious) Klondike brand "Chocolate Covered Vanilla Ice Cream" bars...🙂...that I occasionally pick up during my visits to the store. And, surely, many of us would recall that famous (or infamous...depending on how one looks at it...) commercial "What would you do for a Klondike Bar"...Oh boy...more than 40 years have passed since, and it feels like just yesterday...🙂...never thought I would be visiting that famous Klondike River one day in the SIM... Anyway, after my exploration of this fascinating and historic region, and ruminating about the thousands and thousands of dreamers and explorers that had once set off for the Yukon destinations, such as Dawson City, in search of Gold, leaving behind, as proof of their adventures, only today's ghost towns where time has stood still, .... I have finally returned back to the Dawson City Airport (see the last couple of images). MSFS has done a nice job of the scenery around here...and has filled a void that was apparent in the earlier SIMs... Thanks for viewing...!
March 14, 20242 yr Great set of shots, and i'll take the chicken, by the way..😅 cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
March 15, 20242 yr Author On 3/13/2024 at 8:55 PM, Alaska738 said: Fine shots! 😉 Thanks much, Will...🙂...! On 3/14/2024 at 12:49 AM, pmplayer said: Great set of shots, and i'll take the chicken, by the way..😅 cheers 😉 ...🙂.... Good choice...and probably with a side of "Mayo"...🙂... Seriously, it was fun exploring and thinking about these areas and little towns...not so well-known but that have incredible stories to tell, for sure... Edited March 15, 20242 yr by P_7878
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