July 2018

Ariana was able to join us in Alaska to experience this beautiful state of our union.  We enjoyed a paddleboat ride where we witnessed a few of the standard fare of the area.  Alongside the paddleboat a seaplane landed and took off showing off the maneuverability needed to use this Read more

Less than 2% of the population in the world can state that they have been north of the Arctic Circle.  I guess we are now in the minority.  We booked a plane excursion up to Coldfoot that left at 7:30pm.  Still hard to get my head around it being light Read more

The Alaskan (Klondike) Gold Rush came about 40 years after the rush in California.  Miners came by the droves to stake claims and make it rich but the majority didn’t.  However many towns became established during this time for support systems and transportation hubs. Katrina, Keenan and I went out Read more

Keenan arrived on Saturday at 2am.  I lost the straw pull between Katrina and myself, therefore I went to get him.  His bags took forever to get, you would think that at that time of day and very few flights in/out it would be faster.  Nope.  We got back to Read more

The Riverview RV Park in Badger, Alaska just outside of Fairbanks is a nice place to stay.  Good thing because we had eight days booked here.  Time to catch our breathe, stock up on supplies, and wait for the kids to come join us for a week.  It is very Read more

Tok (pronounced toke), Alaska is a crossover stop for the unofficial “loop”.  This loop connects Tok with Fairbanks with Anchorage and on back to Tok.  We would follow the loop over the next few weeks. We were excited to get back into a town, we were wrong.  Tok is more Read more

So the “wall” between Canada’s Yukon Territory and Alaska is a 20 feet cleared line of trees that extends for miles.  I’m not sure how we keep all of those undesirable Canadians out of Alaska, but it seems to work.  Here are some pictures: Immigration was a few miles down Read more

On the way to Beaver Creek we stopped and looked at one of the original bridges that the US Army built back in the 1940’s: Obviously this bridge wasn’t built with the Busse Bus in mind!  Glad that it was rebuilt nearby with concrete. We also stopped to stretch our Read more

Whitehorse, of course.  The capitol was actually moved here in the 1950’s from Dawson City after the Alaska Highway was completed.  Beautiful town on a river that has been dammed to create a lake.  It has a large “seaplane” airport off the lake.  When they dammed up the river to Read more

Pulled into Watson Lake, Yukon Territories (YT) and had to stop to see the signs.  People have been posting all kinds of signs here for years.  The sign forest goes on and on: I was only able to snap a few pics from various angles.   Truly amazing on the Read more