Thought I would add a few more photos of the BIG TRIP. Just click on a photo and you will be able to open any of the photos. [View Full Entry]

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Day 26 August 8 Traveled 520 miles to McBride, BC We are off the ferry and in the Old Ford F250 again. We made it almost across British Columbia. We would have made it to Alberta, but a very beautiful rainbow led us to a campground in McBride, BC. The rainbow made a perfect arc over this nice little town. We stopped and took a bunch of photos of the rainbow and are spending the night under the rainbow, or where it was. It was again cloudy and rainy most of the day, until the rainbow came out. Maybe it’s a [View Full Entry]

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The adventures of Big Al and the Geoose in Alaska got lost by our friends at TravelBlog.com. Their server crashed and all is lost. Fortunately we have copies of most of the blogs. Here are days 7-20. We will publish some photos when we have a chance. Day 7 July 20 340 miles Traveled - Camped at Takhini Hot Springs last night and took another hot bath. We had a good cold rain shower while we where in the hot springs. That cooled us down a bit. The first stop today on the Klondike Trail was at "Moms Bakery". Mom has [View Full Entry]

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Will add some more photos at a later date. Day 21 August 3 Traveled about 250 miles. Staying at Tolsona Wilderness Campground. This is the same campground we stayed at on July 28th. It is a very nice place and would highly recommend it to any Alaska travelers. It’s 13 miles west of Glennallen and the owners are friends of Karen and Gary. Our drive today took us through the Anchorage area. We made a quick stop to re-provision our expedition. We continue to be amazed at all the mountains. It’s hard to drive anywhere in the State and not see [View Full Entry]

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Day 16 July 29 Traveled about 130 miles to Valdez, Sea Otter RV Park We started the day with a good breakfast at the Caribou Lodge in Glennallen; one of Karen and Gary’s favorite places. We stopped at the Wrangell St. Elias National Park Visitors Center. This is a new and very nice visitors center. This is the largest National Park in the US. It’s 6 times larger than Yellowstone. It has 6 of the 10 tallest mountains in the US. It is very remote with only 2 roads that penetrate the park a short distance. We will probably visit [View Full Entry]

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Day 4 July 17 482 miles taveled Out of the grain fields and into the spruce forests. Got onto the Alaskan Highway at Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Spent the night at a campground with a bunch of French Canadian pipeline construction workers. They are finding lots of natural gas in the area and will be piping some it our way. We also met a young couple from Green Bay and a couple of old geezers, like you know who, from Iowa at the camp ground. Also had a slight mishap with the laptop computer. A Geoose set it on a lawn [View Full Entry]

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Day 1 July 14, 2007 Miles traveled 450 We departed Baraboo, Wisconsin at 8:00 AM July 14th on our long anticipated journey to Alaska. We had an uneventful trip out of Wisconsin and across Minnesota. Our first stop was at the Gjersvig farm near Detroit Lakes. We had a wonderful meal with Mom Gjersvig, Karen, Gary and Harold. Creamed peas and new potatoes from the garden with mom’s baked beans and Wisconsin brats and beer filled us up. We camped next to the barn where Wayne milked his last cow about 40 years ago. Wild life count - 3 white [View Full Entry]

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We have some basic plans, but places and times may change. Our departure place and time are firm. Wayne (Geoose) and Big Al leave Baraboo, Wisconsin July 14, 2007. Will stop in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota the first night. Need to visit Mom and sister Karen and brother in-law Gary. Karen and Gary are ex-Alaskans and will tell us where some of the good fishing holes are in the Glennallen area. We then will drive thru North Dakota and cross the boarder north of Minot. Then to Moose Jaw, Sk and on to the yellow Head highway 16 to Saskatoon and [View Full Entry]

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TRAVELERS -Geoose (Wayne) and Big Al (Al) are long time friends who served their Country together, in the US Army. It was the late 60's and they were fortunate enough to not be sent across the big pond to SE Asia. After being stationed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC for most of their tour, they both were honorably discharged in 1969 and sent into the world of civilians. Geoose settled in Wisconsin and Big Al in Illinois where they still reside. After many years, almost 40, of hunting and fishing trips together a suggestion of a [View Full Entry]

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To become aquainted with the Travelblog and learn how to use it I will publish several of our previous trips. In September 2005, Karen, Amber and Wayne loaded up the old pickup camper and headed west to Glacier National Park and other places west of the Mississippi. Our first stop was in Detroit Lakes, MN. to visit Mom Gjersvig and sister and brother-in-law; Karen and Gary. The next day we drove to Western North Dakota and stayed at Teddy Roosevelt National Park (Northern Section). This is Bad Land country. We continued west into Big Sky country. Teddy Roo [View Full Entry]

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