Carmacks
It was raining when we left Dawson City this morning but it mostly cleared up except for a few brief showers throughout the day. Our first few miles along the Klondike Highway were through the piles of rock left by dredges in the gold mining days. These stretched for a long way out of town. […]
Read More
Dawson City
We are in Dawson City for two days and we took the opportunity of having a rest day today, our second day here. We spent the morning walking around the streets of Dawson City taking in the architecture and the atmosphere of this town. We feel as though we are visiting the set of a […]
Read More
Top of the World Highway
We left Tok in cold and foggy weather. This didn’t look good for one of the ‘highlight days’ of our trip – our drve across ‘The Top of The World Highway’. This road extends 258 km from Tetlin Junction, about 17 km south of Tok on the Alaska Highway, to the Canadian Border and then […]
Read More
Travelling from Paxson to Tok
We were the only guests at the Tangle River Inn last night. As such, we had the royal treatment – a tour of all the mementos in the lounge and the bar including a bear skin, a photo of Sarah Palin (I had to keep my mouth shut) and a certificate from the President’s office […]
Read More
Out in the Tundra
Our travels today have taken us into Central Alaska and to the Tangle River Inn, 20 miles out in the tundra along the Denail Highway from Paxson.. This place is a haven for fishermen but only offers very basic accommodation. I guess that our tour company, GoNorth, included it because the next town uo the […]
Read More
On Towards Palmer
We left Seward yesterday morning in bright sunshine (warm enough for just a short sleeved shirt) and retraced our way back along the Seward Highway to Anchorage and then on to Palmer. The area around Palmer is the food bowl of Alaska, where the long hours of summer sunshine encourage the the fast growing of […]
Read More
Seward and Kenai Fjords National Park
The town of Seward sits on Resurrection Bay, right at the end of the Seward Highway. Cruise ships and bulk coal ships dock here and the Alaskan Railway then connects them to Anchorage around 190 kms to the north. I had a great trip doing a cruise through the Kenai Fjord National Park, watching wildlife […]
Read More
Homer and Seward
The nice weather that have we had for a few days turned against us yesterday. It rained for most of the day so we decided to have an easy day catching up on domestic activities – many washing and emails. We did venture out for a short time but the rain was not only dampening […]
Read More
Our First Look at the Kenai Peninsula
We were back on a smooth highway again as we drove south from Denali to Fairbanks. The road was wide with a good amount of room for passing many oversized vehicles carrying heavy road construction equipment north. Most of the scenery in the early part of our day was quite stunning but we found long […]
Read More
Traveling in the USA is Hard Work.
My friend, Ken, suggested in a comment, that I was becoming integrated as an American when I referred to a service station (as we would call them at home) as a gas station in my last post. Sometimes it is just easier to go with the flow and use local terminolog because that’s the common […]
Read More
An (Almost) Dud Day in Denali
We set of from Fairbanks yesterday in pouring rain and low cloud. In fact some of the sections of the highway at higher elevations were shrouded in fog where the visibility was only a few hundred metres. Any idea of superb photography during the day was quickly forgotten. Our whole day was spent in intermittent […]
Read More
Wiseman
There are no virtually no settlements along the Dalton Highway that runs for 666 kilometres to Deadhorse on Prudhoe Bay. Around the middle of the road is the remote settlement of Wiseman. It’s nearest town is Coldfoot (13 miles to the south) but it is only a rough truckers stop and some basic accommodation left […]
Read More