The White Pass and Yukon Route railroad connects the port of Skagway, AK with the capitol of the Yukon, Whitehorse and is a smaller than normal gauge (three foot) so that it can weave around the twisty curves working its’ way up and down the mountain. We booked a round Read more…
On the drive down and into Skagway we were able to make a couple of stops to take in the beautiful landscape: These gorgeous views are breathtaking especially after living in suburbia and seeing the Illinois cornfields my entire life. It’s a bit sad to know that this will be Read more…
We went from Valdez back up to Tok, thus completing the Alaska “Loop”. Along the way we stopped to take some great photos of the snow-capped mountains. Beautiful drive. Pulled back into the Tok RV Village (frequent stayers now) and met a nice couple, Larry and Donna Hickey from Paducah, Read more…
Thousands of spawning, dying and dead salmon on the beach and trying to enter the nearby creeks is quite the sight to behold. The birds were having a great time eating fish, flying up the creek and riding the current back out to the sea. Nearby there was a fish Read more…
The only thing that I knew about Valdez was that it was the name of an oil tanker that struck a reef in Prince William Sound in the late 80’s and split a ton of oil that covered the sea life. With very little knowledge of what we were going Read more…
We headed back up the Kenai peninsula bypassing Anchorage and stopped at the Big Bear Campground and RV Park in Palmer, AK. Kat wanted to see the dog sleds in action so we booked an excursion to fly up onto a glacier where a team and crew were performing summer Read more…
We booked a boating excursion with Kenai Fjords Tours that took us up the coast and into fjords. Beautiful views of glaciers, mountains and wildlife that we saw along this route: Pictures of the sites: We had a great ride and it was very interesting talking with the park ranger Read more…
Back down the Kenai peninsula but this time on the east side to Seward. Pulled into the Stoney Creek RV Park and had enough time to go over to the harbor and eat dinner at Ray’s Waterfront restaurant. Wonderful place right on the harbor: Enjoyed seeing the boats and watching Read more…
After Homer we flew to Florida to establish our new residency. You see, Illinois only gave us temporary driver licenses when we changed to a Class B (over 16,000 pounds) license. The actual new ones were supposed to be mailed to us, but since we don’t have an Illinois residence Read more…
The best memory of Alaska (besides sharing this adventure with my beautiful wife and having the kids come and visit us, of course) was the Alaska Bear Adventure excursion that we did out of Homer. We boarded a small plane bound for the Katmai National Park that landed on the Read more…