Part 35: Back to Canmore & Home
Saturday 22nd October:
The overnight temperature reached minus 5. BBBBBrrrr.
We are heading south and eventually back west towards Calgary and Canmore where we will store...
Part 34: Polar Bears of Hudson Bay / Churchill
Monday 17th October:
Winter has truly arrived! Snow covers all of Thompson and ice is on the roads.
Driving slowly we attend to mundane things like...
Part 33: West to Thompson 3200Kms in 9 Days
And we need to be there on the evening of October 16th so as we can catch a pre booked 18hour rail trip to Churchill on the Hudson Bay. Why? To see Polar Bears.....Why Not !
Saturday 8th...
Part 32: Canol Road & Watson Lake
The last couple of days we have driven back into Canada from Alaska. The border crossing being uneventful and all very easy.
The temperature is dropping to below zero during the night and...
Part 31: Copper Rich Kennicott
Friday 30th September:
Leaving Valdez and over the Thompson Pass it begins to snow...winter is on its way!
Our off the main...
Part 30: No Roads to Cordova
Monday 26th September:
But there is the Alaskan Marine Highway and other than by air this is the only way to visit this remote fishing town.
Thus...
Part 29: The End of the Road - Seldovia & Red Mt.
Thursday 22nd September:
Finally the weather has cleared for our trip across the bay to Seldovia.
With the vehicle loaded into the Alaska Marine Highway vessel “Tustumenia”...
Part 28: Kenai Peninsula, South of Anchorage
Tuesday 13th September:
Revisited Anchorage again to call into the Apple store and resolved a storage problem with the MacBookPro...all good now.
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Part 27: Denali National Park
Thursday-Sunday 8-11th September.
The changing autumn colours are still happening in Denali, a 6 million acre park that straddles the Alaska range.
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Part 26: Return Down to Dalton H’way to Fairbanks
If you are into 4x4 equipment then here is a couple more unusual items:
Monday 5th September:
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Part 25: Dalton H’way to the top of the Earth
Thursday 1st September
With the fridge restocked and the service completed we decided to head to the Chena Hot Springs about 100kms from Fairbanks for our camp. This is...
Part 24: Into Alaska:Eagle, Chicken, Tok, Fairbanks.
Monday 29th August
As we were about to cross the Yukon River at Dawson we offered 2 young ladies a lift to Chicken, about 80kms inside Alaska. Caroline and Nynke from France and the Netherlands...
Part 23: Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk, Back down the Dempster.
Thursday 25th August: Up late and started in town at the very informative visitors centre, then to the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) office to catch up with Robert who we had met on the road. He was not in...
Part 22: The Klondike and Dempster H'way- Whitehorse, Dawson City, Inuvik.
Friday 19th August:
Fuelled up and with the food storage full we continue our drive to more northern latitudes.
Past Five...
Part 21: North on the Cassiar & Alaskan H’way - Hazelton to Whitehorse
Part 21: North on the Cassiar & Alaskan H’way - Hazelton to Whitehorse
Saturday 13th August:
Raining today but it did not dampen...
Part 20: Return to Canada
“On the Road Again”
It has taken us a couple of days to get back into the system of travelling after being home for a two months. Also was hard to extract ourselves away from family and our...
