I was going through pictures I put up on my server and found this one:
Frankly, I’m lucky to be alive. I was driving from Dawson City in the Yukon to Keno City (Population: 8 people) when I nearly fell off the road. This was despite me driving a Chevy Blazer with 4 wheel drive at speeds of less than 20 km/h. The road was gravel and the shoulder was too soft to drive on. I still managed to drive over the mountain road into town. The city itself was abandoned, and only partially torn down. However it was quite fascinating to me. I spent an hour there and then tried to head back. Driving up the mountain, right next to the mountain edge was insanely difficult. I can only assure you that I did nearly die that day, once or twice. I stopped taking pictures at the point where I was driving up hill and nearly slipped off. I got out of the car and looked downhill to realize I was centimeters away from a long tumble down the mountain. I had to drive almost 7 hours – 2 hours at speeds less than 40 km/h just to get out of the Silver Trail and crashed in the local Whitehorse hostel. The next morning when I woke up I was so shook up I couldn’t drive properly.
I didn’t bother posting it here before since I was afraid my family would have a collective heart attack, but I guess things are OK like this.