June 18, Visited the three buildings in town, gift shops, cafe’, and they have a liquor store which we didn’t visit. They have fuel at two different places, but they say if you can make it to Tok, which is 80 miles away, get it there it’s cheaper. Chicken has a population of 23 in summer and 7 in winter, there is nothing to do here but pan for gold and check out the old dredges. The town has no water source, it is trucked in, or electricity, everything is run on generators and no cell service. They do have a post office, with delivery every Tuesday and Friday, I took some pieces of mail to send, just because, I read somewhere that if you want your mail delivered here you must mail it 10 days prior to wanting it. Chicken also has an airport, which they say is busy. At the campground you can pan for gold, Ken decided to try his hand and did find some small pieces.
June 19, Ken decided we needed to stay another day in Chicken, he wanted to pan some more for gold. He panned for gold from 11:30 - 3:30 got quite a bit of flakes and one nugget that wouldn’t fit up the tube to the squirt bottle. We just sat around until we went to bed about 10:30 in the light.
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