August 14-15, 2018 Salmon Glacier is the largest road-accessible glacier in the world. The road to the glacier is 17 miles long and is mostly dirt, but the vistas it affords were so spectacular, we drove it twice. We crossed the Alaska-British Columbia border four times each way. Rocks along the Read more…
April 6, 2019 It’s time for a serious update. Our last post was five months ago–and it was about our travels three months before that. We have not spent the intervening months in Stewart, B.C. snowed in. We made our way 4000 miles south to Arizona where we spent an Read more…
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…
August 3-6, 2018 Our return to Whitehorse had a sense of urgency with the discovery of the front end damage to the Jeep. Our first stop in Whitehorse was to the Jeep dealer who informed us that they could not repair the damage but did recommend a welding shop with Read more…
August 1-2, 2018 Leaving Valdez, we traveled northeast on the Richardson Highway and Tok Cutoff to the town of Tok, Alaska near the border with the Yukon Territory. Everyone traveling by road to or from Alaska passes through Tok where the roads east and west all intersect. We spent the Read more…
July 29-31, 2018 Valdez is on Prince William Sound a the southern end of the Richardson Highway. Getting there was a beautiful drive. Valdez (think val-DEEZ) is the most northerly ice-free port in the western hemisphere. A whaling company promoted a route to the Klondike goldfields terminating in Valdez as Read more…
July 26-28, 2018 Palmer is a town of about 7,000 people north of Anchorage. It is located on the banks of the Matanuska River. The Matanuska Valley was carved by glaciers that left behind a fine fertile silt. This soil, combined with long daylight hours, makes the area a perfect Read more…