As if Alaska wasn't enough for our adventure, we continued on to the Canadian Rockies. Ever since John grew up in Seattle and always wanted to visit Jasper, Lake Louise and Banff. At Mile Marker One in Dawson Creek two months after we started there, we drove to Grande Prairie, Alberta. We spent t...
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Dateline July 15, 2011, Our Safari Whitehorse to Dawson Creek
We said goodbye to Joan and Chuck, Hal and Kim and Pete, Pete hooked back up with us after dropping Bunny off to fly home, (her Mom passed away, our condolences to her and the family) and headed out on our last legs of the Walkabout Canada-Alaska trip down the ALCAN. Our destination for the day w...
Read MoreDateline July 13, 2011 Yukon – Dawson City and Whitehorse
Dawson City's history and stories bring all of us to a level of excitement that was a part of our youth. Jack London's stories like the
“Call of the Wild” and Robert W. Service's poems Who Shot Dan McGrew about a gal named Lou and Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. The many stor...
Read MoreDateline July 7, 2011- Leaving Alaska-Chicken and Top of the World Highway
We departed Fairbanks heading south on the Richardson Highway, our destination for the day was Delta Junction. Delta Junction is the top end on the Alaska Canadian Highway (ALCAN). Since we had traveled north into Alaska on the Alaska Marine Highway from Prince Rupert, we wanted to head south back...
Read MoreDateline July 4th, Fairbanks, Alaska
After Denali it would be hard to beat the absolute beauty of the National Park. With that we went on to Fairbanks. We found a state park campground close to the University of Alaska that sits on the Chena River and has great campsites built among the trees. We camped there with Pete and Bunny Ware...
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