August 14-15, 2018 First, here are pictures from the drive. Stewart, British Columbia Stewart is located at the head of the Portland Canal, a 90-mile fjord that makes for Canada’s most northern ice-free port. It does not appear ever to have been a location where First Nations members settled, although Read more…
August 12-13, 2018 Leaving Teslin, Yukon Territory we traveled east on the Alaska Highway 150 miles until we reached Highway 37, the Cassiar Highway which travels south through British Columbia ending at the Yellowhead Highway 450 miles to the south. [You may remember that we were last on the Yellowhead Read more…
August 9, 2018 There are no roads to Alaska’s capital city, Juneau, so we took the Fjord Express ferry the 83 miles along the Lynn Canal. We stopped at nearby Haines to pick up other passengers. The boat’s 15 sea miles would have required 355 miles by road. We were Read more…
August 7-9, 2018 Skagway is in southeastern Alaska, 396 air miles or 753 road miles from Valdez, our previous destination. The highway took us through Yukon Territory and British Columbia. As we neared the border with the U.S., we saw some of the 600 fires that plagued British Columbia over Read more…