September 13-19, 2018 Astoria is located at the mouth of the 1200 mile Columbia River and has played important roles through history. It was a meeting place for indigenous peoples long before the arrival of American pioneers. In 1792 Captain Robert Grey sailed into “the Great River of the West” Read more…
Note: Another in an embarrassing series of out-of-order posts. We could have flown from Seattle to Victoria but we actually flew from Vancouver–before we went to Seattle. August 28, 2018 Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is an island 76 miles from Vancouver. We arranged to take a seaplane (35 Read more…
September 7-9, 2018 We had discovered to our great dismay that the welds made on the Jeep in Whitehorse had not held. Rather than drive back to Whitehorse, we took the car to a Jeep dealer in Tacoma who discovered an unrepaired weld higher in the engine than we or Read more…
August 29 – September 7, 2018 We left Vancouver and crossed back into the continental US two and a half months after departing Helena, Montana. The border crossing was uneventful and the drive to Seattle relatively short compared to the six thousand seven hundred miles we had traveled in the Read more…
August 22-27, 2018 Fort Langley is about 45 minutes from downtown Vancouver. We had hoped to stay in Vancouver but found nothing available. We found a site at a campground in a regional park just across the Fraser River from the charming village of Fort Langley. We walked to shopping, Read more…
August 22, 2018 Our route to Vancouver took us along the Fraser River, named for Simon Fraser who led an expedition through the area in 1808. The road was winding and narrow but the views of the river and the canyon were magnificent. Next time we should hire a driver Read more…
Another out-of-chronological-order post. Better late than never? August 10-11, 2018 From Skagway, Alaska it is necessary to travel north through British Columbia into the Yukon Territory before we can resume our journey south to the United States. Our next stop was in Teslin, Yukon Territory 110 miles southeast of Whitehorse Read more…
Oops! This is the first of two draft posts that were somehow lost in the shuffle. Despite appearances, we did NOT go from Cache Creek to Edmonton–Edmonton was on the way TO Alaska! June 18, 2018 Leduc No. 1 was a major crude oil discovery made near Leduc, Alberta, Canada Read more…
August 22-27, 2018 Vancouver Sights We took two routes of a hop-on/hop-off bus hoping to see as much of the city as possible. What we actually saw was water dripping down the plastic windows of the bus. We took no pictures that day, but on another visit into the city, Read more…
August 16-21, 2018 The highway in and out of Stewart threads its way between mountains featuring glaciers and waterfalls. Smithers and Telkwa The Alaska portion of our journey was now behind us, and it was time to head south. We chose the western route, following the Cassiar Highway. Highway 37, Read more…