We are home!!!! After 140 days of travel (approximately 5 months), we are back in our “sticks and bricks” aka “our house.” It was an amazing summer and trip of a life time. We had to postpone this trip the…
Seward BC / Hyder AK
Alaska had one more treasure to show us before we said goodbye to her. After leaving Skagway, our next destination was Hyder, Alaska. Once again, to get to this part of Alaska, we had to go through Canada. At the…
The Inside Passage
Even though we had made our way back to Canada, we weren’t done with Alaska yet! We wanted to see the Inside Passage. The Inside Passage is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which…
Dalton Highway to the Arctic Ocean
We had made it halfway up the Dalton Highway. It was time to leave the RV at the midpoint and get ourselves up to the Arctic Ocean. We had some time to kill, so we drove around town a bit.…
Dalton Highway to the Arctic Circle
The Dalton Highway, the road from Fairbanks to Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay is a road with a nasty reputation. According to the Milepost (our guidebook). The Dalton Highway is unique in its scenic beauty, wildlife and recreational opportunities, but it is also…
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
Ok, so the movie is actually called Planes, Trains and Automobiles (staring Steve Martin and the late John Candy). But we are took all these modes of transportation in a different order in a single day. We decided to park…
How to NOT get your mail
As we travel this country, we sometimes need our mail forwarded to us. During this trip, we have a couple of young men in our neighborhood monitoring our mailbox for us. Shout out to R and K! They are doing…
Fairbanks
We surprised ourselves by spending two weeks in Fairbanks. Two weeks! The town had all the major shopping outlets you could need (Costco, Walmart, Safeway, Fred Meyer). We picked up an Amazon order at the UPS store. And we got…
Navigating Wildfires
Checking on the status of wildfires around us has become commonplace on this summer adventure. One of the hot (pun intended) topics of discussion at the RV Rally was the status of the two wildfires happening between our rally location…
Rendezvous Under Denali
How do you summarize an amazing five days of camaraderie, excellent weather, and serendipitous surprises? It’s going to be tough to do in this blog post. If you recall, I mentioned the RVing to Alaska Facebook ground we belong to…