June 14th & 15th - Yellowknife

June 14th - Sat - Yellowknife
I typed some emails offline this morning before we had breakfast and headed out to explore and find a library for internet access. First we stopped at the main information center which is very nice with interesting displays. Next we went to the library which did have wifi. No charge for wifi but all the parking downtown is metered or a parkade so you have to pay for parking. There are a couple of shopping malls on the lower floor of high rise buildings downtown. The library is on the second floor of one of them. I imagine they are totally enclosed because of the long, cold winters here.
We stopped at a grocery store and found the prices in line with other Canadian stores - some items which blow me away as they are so much higher than US stores. On the way back to the park to get some frozen items in the freezer, we passed other shopping areas that were outside but were mainly large stores such as WalMart and Canadian Tire.
After some more exploring & shopping in town, we walked around the RV park looking for a nice spot to move to tomorrow. It was sunny but the breeze required a light jacket.

June 15th - Sun - Yellowknife
The move to a new site process took up most of the day. We wandered around looking at vacant sites again and then went to the office to get a site map of spots that should be available for the next 5 days. The park is pretty spread out so we got the truck, selected a spot and paid for it. It was not vacant yet so we had some lunch & packed up. We were plugged into a locked shed in the maintenance yard and it turned out that no one on site had a key for the shed. They said they would deliver our extension cord to our new site as soon as someone showed up with a key.
There is no water or sewer hookups at this park (Fred Henne Territorial Park) but they have a dump station and you can buy water. So we dumped before setting up at the new site and tried to get water. Apparently, their tank was empty so we had to drive to a site in town that has free water for RVers. Missed the turn into it the first time by and made a turn into a residential area to “go around the block”. It is always nerve-wracking when a street turns to gravel in such an area and you cannot see if the road goes through. But it did go through, we got water and got set up in our new, very nice spot. We were able to sit out and enjoy the sunshine.
Another camper stopped by when he saw our WA license plates. He was from Yellowknife and just wanted to welcome us to the NWT and invite us to drop by his site for a visit. We walked over and admired his inukshuk - a stacked stone figure - and chatted for awhile. He is a truck driver and drives on the ice roads that we have seen on TV.
When we got back, we hunted for stones to build our own inukshuk. It is way harder than it looks! And, yes, our extension cord was waiting for us when we returned.