We are headed towards home. We still plan to see some places we didn’t see on the way up. Last night we had dinner at Sourdough Joe’s. This morning we got pecan sticky buns at Cheechako’s Bake Shop to eat later as a morning snack. It’s quite appropriate that the two food establishments are next door to one another. In Alaska and the Yukon, Cheechako is a newcomer, greenhorn or tenderfoot, and the opposite of a sourdough or oldtimer. The word originated from Chinook jargon, a trade language that combined English and Indian dialects. The name sourdough comes from sourdough bread, a staple of early homesteaders. Originally, the term meant early settler or prospector who probably used the hardy mixture; but today, a sourdough may be anyone who as lived in Alaska or the Yukon for most of their life. I also heard that since they ate sourdough bread every day that they actually took on a sourdough smell.
It was a beautiful crystal clear day driving from Dawson City to Whitehorse. There is so much Fall color and the mountains were beautiful. Since this makes three times over this drive for us we just relaxed and enjoyed the scenery and didn’t take pictures of the drive. We have put 8230 miles on the truck so far!!!
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Wow, that's a lot of miles.
ReplyDeleteThe information about sourdough and cheechako is interesting, but what about the story that cheechako is a mispronunciation of a newcomere from Chicago?
I see what you mean about pictures - only 2 posted today!!!