We wrote about the wildlife and glaciers that we saw on the trip to the Columbia glacier. The trip to Whittier was a continuation of that great experience. We hate to overuse the term, WOW!, but it best describes the beauty and majesty of the trip. Prince William Sound was […]

We arrived in Valdez on Memorial Day. Our first stop was the visitors center where they were very helpful and invited us to their fresh halibut picnic behind the high school. We along with several other Roadtrek couples attended the picnic. What a great time. The Coast Guard flew a

We left Skagway early Sunday morning and headed for Haines on the last leg, for a while, on the Alaska Maritime Highway. The town of Skagway itself was a bit of a disappointment because the cruise lines, for all intents and purpose “bought” the town. There had to be 60

Lots of side adventures while in Juneau. The Glacier Gardens was an interesting tour through the trees up to 600 feet seeing the glacier forest and learning how it comes back after a landslide and how trees coming down create a eco-system for other trees and plants to thrive. Of

This is a day that will be remembered the rest of our lives. We caught the 56 foot Adventure Bound boat at 8:00 AM in Juneau and traveled south for several hours to the Tracy Arm Fjord and Sawyer Glaciers. The trip down was through unbelievably beautiful mountains raising from

Dawson Creek to Prince Rupert The drive to Prince Rupert to catch the ferry for the Alaska Marine Highway started with the repeat trip down Highway 97 to Prince George before picking up Highway 16 over to Prince Rupert. The highlight to Prince George was passing over Pine Pass, which

Dawson Creek was a town of 600 when in 1942 the United States started building an almost 1,500 mile highway (the AlCan) to just south of Fairbanks, Alaska. It is considered one of the top civil engineering marvels of the world along with the great wall of China and Hoover

Another adventurous day begins leaving the Casino in Prince George where we spent the nigh in the parking lot after a few hours at the computerized roulette table. $40 lost, but a few hours of fun! The drive began uneventfully until we reached Pine Pass; the lowest pass in the

The ferry trip from Vancouver Island wound through the San Juan Islands and was spectacular.  Landing in Vancouver we drove around and saw some of the sites.  It was raining so we headed on out to Hope BC for the evening .  The RV park in a beautiful valley surrounded