We arrived in Prince George, British Columbia, seeing our first stoplight just outside of town. This must be a big city!! It does have a population of almost 77,000. After seeing stores after stores and …
We have a few days to explore before our Banff National Park reservations, so we stayed two extra nights at our next stop in Smithers, B.C. Smithers was named after Sir Alfred Smithers, the chairman …
We have been so fortunate with weather cooperating in our travels. We had heard that it rains so much in Alaska, especially when you are around the coast, so bring proper rain gear. I brought …
We ended our last blog with our fun bear observations. We made several trips back to the creek for bear watching and Helen took a few more photos to share. While hanging out on the …
As you can see from the feature photo, we were finally were able to watch bears interact and chomp on Salmon. Yay! More on that a bit later. We left Continental Divide RV Park, …
Dave and Brenda graciously said if we wanted to take the Top of the World Hwy to Dawson City, they would wait for us in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. I have an interest in gold mining …
Earlier we shared that we upgraded the axles on the Mini-T (our Imagine 17MKE travel trailer). Dave was concerned on the uneven wear on one of the trailer tires and we made an appointment in …
If you remember, in the last blog I mentioned we needed special footwear for our next stop. Yep…we needed micro spikes, which are metal spikes attached to a rubber harness that is stretched over the …
Whittier was our last stop on our tour around the Kenai Peninsula. Everything we read said to be tolerant of the persistent rain in the Kenai Peninsula. Just do what you want to do in …
Seward is located on the east side of Kenai Peninsula, on Resurrection Bay. I thought we could just drive around the bottom from Homer. Nope…those darn although beautiful mountains are in the way. We had …
Our trip to Kodiak was made possible by Brenda and Dave’s generosity. They drove us to the Anchorage airport, almost an hour away from our camp and picked us up on our return. Tks D&B! …
Homer is very dog friendly! Finally, a great stop for Murphy. There was a beautiful overlook right before we got into town. Helen and her camera lens went “off trail” to get a great shot …
Is it Sunday already? Wow…what a week, especially for Greg & Helen. They were able to fly to Kodiak Island and spend a few days with Greg’s cousin. We are publishing a separate blog just …
As we left our northernmost stop of Fairbanks and headed south, traveling back the way we came on the Parks Highway, it was a beautiful day, with a clear blue sky. And not long into …
It was a bit tough going from almost a week in the wilderness of Denali to the “big” city of Fairbanks. Fairbanks is only a little over a 2 hours drive north of Denali National …
We saw Denali again! First on Friday morning and then again early on a crisp Monday morning. It was 43°, but with the wind chill it was 34° And this is their summer! So majestic …
First, the fire crews did an exceptional job and opened Denali National Park on July 10th, just one day before our reservation. Yay! And second, we saw Denali! But first, a big thank you to …
When you think of Valdez, what do you think of? Is it the destructive 1964 Good Friday earthquake, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale and the tsunami that followed which caused the Army Corps of …
Oh no…another wildfire. We needed to revise our route again. Instead of going northwest to Fairbanks, we are headed southwest to Valdez, with a stop in Glennallen. Since we are traveling during the 4th of …
Well, for this blog I had a hard time deciding on which photo to use for the feature photo on the top of the blog. We had our first bear photo opportunity during our drive …
From Whitehorse, Yukon, we had planned to take the Klondike Highway northwest to Dawson City, Yukon – home of the famous Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s. However, due to an uncontrolled wildfire, we …
What is a sign post forest? Well, back in 1942, during the construction of the Alaska Highway, U.S. soldier Carl K. Lindley was spending time in Watson Lake, British Columbia recovering from an injury. He …
Yes! We snagged two of the 10 hard-to-get first come first serve campsites at the glacier made, Azure-blue Muncho Lake. We arrived at 10:45 am (after a stop at the Testa Lodge to buy …
What is so special about the Alaska Highway, formerly known as the Alcan (Alaska-Canadian Highway)? For many years, there had been talks between officials in United States and Canada about building a road connecting the …