Daily updates to the traveling Busse Bus
We left the Continental Divide and continued to head south without a real destination in mind. It was an interesting drive and I’m glad that we had given ourselves time to meander. First off we drove to Nugget City (really not a city) on the ALCAN heading to the Cassiar Read more…
On July 12th, our traveling dog Bear, turned seven. He has been on the road with us for six and a half years – basically his whole life! He loves traveling especially when he gets to go on hikes, have fun in the water, play, go out for food with Read more…
We had hoped that Jeff and Molli were going to catch up with us in Tok, but they decided to push onward. We were both anxious to get back down south to civilization. We left Tok and drove down the Alaskan Highway until we got past the town of Teslin Read more…
We left Palmer and drove up to Tok to stay at the Tok RV Village where we stayed six years ago. On the way we ran into a lot of frost heaves that made the driving slow and bumpy! We did see the Matanuska Glacier along the way: Beautiful view Read more…
We left the Homer area and headed north through Anchorage with our destination of Palmer, AK. We stopped in Anchorage to resupply at Costco and Petco. It’s always fun driving the Busse Bus with the truck in tow through parking lots. We also saw another moose along the way: In Read more…
We left Seward and headed over to the Homer, AK area where we celebrated our Independence Day. On the drive over we stopped at Tern Lake and got some pictures of the lake with the mountains as a backdrop: Notice the geese and goslings! We were on the Sterling Highway Read more…
We left Willow and headed south with our destination of Seward on the coast of the Kenai Peninsula. Immediately after pulling out of the campground we got another view of Denali form about 90 miles away: We made another stop along the way and got to see the magnificent mountain Read more…
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…