Monthly Archives: August 2010

Tonight we are in the King Edward motel in the border town of Stewart, BC.  This morning it was starting to get cloudy, and as we drove south along the Cassiar highway, it began to get more and more cloudy, … Continue reading →

Tonight we are back into British Columbia after travelling south along the Cassiar Highway.  It was cold last night, but sometime after midnight it began to cloud over, and then the temperature stabilized, and didn’t go below freezing.  Fortunately it … Continue reading →

Enid and I have now walked on the Chilkoot Trail, at least the first few hundred metres.  This morning we drove to Skagway (or Skaguay, as it has and continues to be spelled both ways) which is just a bit … Continue reading →

We decided as we were leaving Whitehorse that we had enough time to visit Skagway for a day, so we drove south to Carcross.  Tonight we are camped in the Tagish/Carcross First Nations campsite at Carcross.  It is a nice … Continue reading →

We passed the 10,000 kilometer mark yesterday, and still have many more to go before we return.  Although it was a long drive, and very rough road through the Beaver Creek area, it was still beautiful to drive along the … Continue reading →

Well, two actually, as it’s our second time here, but now we’re on the way home.  It rained about three o’clock, but the fact that it was cloudy also meant that it was fairly warm all night.  It stopped raining … Continue reading →

Two flats today, but only one of them was ours.  More on that later.  It was very cold in the night, and the inside of the fly was covered with frost when we awoke.  Even after it had hung in … Continue reading →

The night was miserable.  It rained almost constantly until around four this morning.  I lay awake thinking “what an incredible waste of money the bus tour we have booked tomorrow will be.”  Nevertheless, we awoke just before six and after … Continue reading →

We drove north along the George Parks highway this morning, a beautiful sunny day, with stunning views of Denali all along the way.  The first opportunity to get any good pictures was when we crossed the Chulitna River bridge.  There … Continue reading →

Once we left Eagle River it was a fast drive to tonight’s campsite.  North through Wasilla (whose claim to fame is that Sarah Palin was the mayor) and then we came to this Alaska State recreation site on Nancy Lake.  … Continue reading →