By the Numbers (so Far)

So here is our trip by the numbers (so far) Since leaving Valdez we have traveled 1,564 miles in eight days. Most days since leaving Valdez were drive, park, sleep, repeat. On one of those stops in Destruction Bay, Yukon Territory we picked up our hitch hikers, the two mice. We discovered we had what […]

Valdez

So, to continue he saga from Anchorage, our trailer was finally fixed at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, we are pretty sure they never even looked at it the day before. Anyway I thought “Great, we’ll make it to Valdez before dark”. But of course, it took us until 5:30 for them to pull it out, […]

Whales and Eagles and Seals, Oh My!

We spent two full days in Homer, Alaska (July 27 and 28). We stayed on Homer Spit right on the beach. When we arrived, the wind was blowing so hard, we one of us had to hold the door in the trailer so the other could get in! By the next morning the wind had […]

Anchorage

July 21-25 was spent in Anchorage. Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska with a population of 288,189. With only 730,000 people in the entire state, it is home to most Alaskans. It is a bustling city, not large like Los Angeles, more like Long Beach as it doesn’t have many tall buildings and most […]

Denali

July 16-20 found us in Denali, home to the National Park and of course the tallest peak in North America at 20,310 feet. Here’s an interesting fact, the park has 6 million acres of land and one road going through it! In a personal car you can drive the road for 15 miles, and in […]

Fairbanks, The Land of The Midnight Sun

We arrived in Fairbanks on Monday, July 10th and the drive was so much easier than the drive to Tok. Although there were some frost heaves, they were minor and far and few between. Delta Junction is the end of the Alaska Highway, it is an hour or so outside Fairbanks and we stopped for […]

Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

On June 29 we arrived in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. The geographical size of the Yukon Territory is about the same as California. However, the population of the Yukon Territory is about 44,000 with about 27,000 of them living in Whitehorse. Whitehorse is the Capitol of the Yukon Territory with a population about the same size […]

British Columbia to Yukon Territory

When I last left off, we were in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. We then began a journey through British Columbia which is remote and truly beautiful. We didn’t have cell service or wi-fi most of the the time. On our journey we saw bear, moose, caribou, woodland bison, and a lone goat by the side […]

Dawson Creek & Mile Marker 0

Dawson Creek is the set-off point for the Alaska Highway. We spent three nights here, Wednesday through Friday June 21, 22, 23. We will leave on Saturday the 24th for our next travel days. I should also mention when traveling the road north in Canada before Dawson Creek we spotted a large statute of a […]

Oh Canada!

On June 17, 2023, we left America for Canada! The border crossing was easy, and we entered Canada on our way to Granum, Alberta. Going through Calgary was crazy with the amount of rain we got. It rained so hard; we couldn’t hear each other talk in the truck! By the time we got to […]