We left the Denali area and headed south to the “town” of Willow, AK to stay at a campground called Mat-Su. Along the way we pulled over at a few waysides to take in the views: Hurricane Gulch Bridge: Denali Viewpoint South: A bit cloudy but you could still see Read more…
With our late start we had to alter our plans to travel together with the Wills down to Denali National Park. They left at our scheduled departure time of ten, so we were seven hours behind them. Since we only had a little over two hours to drive we weren’t Read more…
I’m going to write this account in three sections: 1) Bear’s and my journey; 2) Katrina’s, Jeff’s and Molli’s adventure; and 3) reunification. First: Bear’s and my journey: The first thing that one needs to accomplish leaving Dawson City is to cross the Yukon River on a ferry. We had Read more…
Upon leaving White Horse, I was closing up the full wall slide (FWS) and the whole process stopped when it hit the back of the driver’s chair. Apparently I popped the 150 Amp fuse and the wall wouldn’t come in. With Jeff’s helped we replaced the fuse, cleared the chair Read more…
First of all “Happy Father’s Day” to all the dads out there! We had a fairly uneventful five hour drive from Watson Lake to Whitehorse only seeing a couple of bears: A red fox in the downtown area. We camped at the Hi Country RV Park. We weren’t parked next Read more…
We left the shore of Muncho Lake and started the drive up to Watson Lake. Short drive today less than three hours. Immediately after pulling out we saw wildlife: After a quick stop for photographs we continued on our way. Then we saw more: About a 1/3rd of the way Read more…
We left Dawson Creek early because we had a planned eight hour drive. The first 300 or so miles of the Alaska Highway were no problem at all – newer pavement divided road. After that the road started to get more dicey but nothing too bad yet. The drive wasn’t Read more…
Since we had changed campgrounds we were only about 4 1/2 hour away from our next destination, Dawson Creek where we were staying at the Mile 0 Campground and reuniting with Jeff and Molli. On our way up there we got to see some more wildlife – moose being the Read more…
As we left Jasper we got to see a Big Horn Ram on the side of the road: We pulled into the Grande Cache Municipal Campground about 7:20pm and were hooked up with water, sewer, and electric (30 amp) by 8pm. Katrina started laundry right away and then made a Read more…
We left Banff National Park and headed north on the Icefields Parkway (93) on our way to Jasper National Park. Yes, it was the same highway that we traversed yesterday for a little less than half. We plan on driving back halfway from Jasper in the truck to make all Read more…