August 2018

We wanted to explore Seattle and take in all the sights.  Not likely unless we were there for a lot longer than the three days.  We did, however, get to see these: Pike Place market which houses seafood, vegetable, fruit, flower and craft shops.  The sights and smells are different Read more

Crossed back in the good ole USA for our final customs check.  Good to be “home”.  Driving through the farms of Washington reminded me of being in Wisconsin.  Heading to Vasa Park just outside of Seattle.  Nice park with a small area for RV’s, mostly set up for day parties. Read more

The Fort Camping RV Park was a very nice place along the river that had a nice downtown area across the bridge and in Fort Langley proper.  Walked over and enjoyed dinner and the quaint town. The next day we spent exploring Vancouver and went up the Harbour Centre building Read more

We yearned for “civilation” so over the next three days we booked our way back down through Canada and into Vancouver.  Lots of miles – 10 to 12 hour days on the road, but we did get a chance to stop and smell the roses along the way. Left Skagway Read more

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

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