Alaska

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 our drive, there she was in the distance…Denali.   Spectacular!   We stopped several times, each overlook giving us a different view […]

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 Park along the Parks Highway.   The Parks Highway, originally known as the Anchorage to Fairbanks Highway, was completed in 1971,

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 in the distance.  I also included some other of the gorgeous wilderness that embodies Denali National Park. Denali Monday A.M.

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 Greg & Helen for the awesome feature photo of this blog.  Their powerful camera lens has enabled us to bring

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 Engineers to move the town 4 miles away?  Or, perhaps the 800-mile-long transatlantic pipeline, opened on August 1, 1977, which

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 July week, the campgrounds in Valdez were booked until the 6th, so we stayed 4 nights in Glennallen.  It worked

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 to the Alaska border and as soon as we took it, Dave said, there is your top blog picture.  But

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 needed to look at different options.  One was going south to Skagway, AK, taking a 1-hour ferry across Chilkoot Inlet