Thursday, April 16, 2020

Day 71 - What If - TT

I just ran into something that would make it more challenging to drive home to Alaska from the lower-48. Since April 2, 2020, the Yukon Territory has an Civil Emergency Protection Order that specifies that non-residents passing through, need to exit the territory within 24 hours. This is almost 1000km. I believe I’ve done that a couple of times over the years. The last was with the Prius, before that was with the truck (no RV southbound) and the BMW motorcycle (no sidecar). Since I’m mentioning this complication, the idea of parking the RV and driving the car back has obviously come up. Right now, we have reservations beginning in May in AZ for a couple of weeks and starting near the end of May for a whole series of TT parks in OR. If these reservations get cancelled and restrictions don’t ease up, we may have to consider this. I haven’t found a similar rule for British Columbia or Alberta.

The uncertainty does cause stress. We still have a couple of weeks here at this TT park before our scheduled departure date. Our reservations are still in place. There have been reports that some have had their TT reservations cancelled but we haven’t experienced that.

I went into the nearby town of Whitesboro to the grocery store. This was just an in-between grocery trip to pick up dairy and produce. But there were some other things that somehow found there way into the cart. Not many people and the only empty shelves seemed to be the cleaning supplies and TP aisle. But we didn’t need any. Plenty of meat, dairy and produce. They even had a selection of dried beans. Something that I hadn’t seen in a store in the last month.

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  1. Get any clarification from Ak Retirement on cola? I hear you're not the only one with this issue, came up today on the AkCare Townhall telecon. You on AKCare email? Wonder how long the Yukon time limit will be in place. The highway is likely to see a lot less traffic this summer. D2D is unlikely but many of us may go anyway. Was planning to ride to BMW MOA in MT, probably not. Going to be hard on the Alcan lodges. Hope things work out OK for you. Heck, just park in a family member's yard or Huddy's. Lots o options.

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    1. Yes, they said in an email that they didn’t have the ability to waive the statutory requirement to return in 90 days but they do have the ability to waive the overpayment penalty for not meeting the requirement due to a hardship situation. They already have the Covid-19 form on their website and you need to provide documentation that you intended to return and documentation of why you couldn’t.

      If things don’t change in Canada, even visiting Dawson wouldn’t be allowed. You are right, there are plenty of options.

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  2. Wow, that is rather a harsh restriction in the Yukon. I definitely feel your uncertainty. Although we are getting closer to the repair being finished, we still don't have a date, and everything after that is uncertain too. Not a fun time to be an RVer, frankly.

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    1. It is, and with the requirement to quarantine yourself while in Canada, you pretty much need a self-contained RV and have all of your food onboard before crossing the border.

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    2. We haven't RVd in Canada yet,but to further complicate things, isn't there a restriction on the kinds of food you can bring into Canada?

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    3. Mostly fruit and the amount of alcohol...

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  3. As things seem to ease up in our country things are getting tighter in North America. Hope it won't be too much of an inconvenience for your guys.

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    1. We’ll see what happens. There are rumors of things easing up in some but not all areas. And even where they do ease up, social distancing may be the new norm. That will seriously impact some industries.

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