Carey Werlein
Well, the five of us are planning to be traveling from Alaska through to the following places: Yukon, British Columbia (both the Cassiar HWY and the Alcan), Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ontario, and Montana from May 16th until we arrive back in Alaska about July 30- August 3rd or so. I hope to be able to keep a travel journal online for everyone to see as the trip unfolds. MystikNorth
Travel Blog Posts
July 30th 2005
Hello everyone! I have tons of pictures and a journal full of entries. What I am going to do is type up the journal from day 1 and add the pictures to this. However, I will first type up the section of travel for our drive home that you have heard nothing of. I will back date everything for you and you will hopefully enjoy what you read. It is nice to be home...... read more
July 29th 2005
So we drove to Scully's which is open 24 hours. After debating what candy to buy, we smelled fresh coffee. Scully said we could filll our mugs in the empty cafe. I went up the three steps catching my sandal on the 2nd, stumbling up the third and onto the deck through the back door, grabbed the booth table and did a 180 and landed on my a$$! All the while my mom was laughing at me, and all I could do is laugh as well. Later I discovered that I had bruised my hand with my watch and I have a four inch bruise on my right forearm and a large bruise on my heel area. Fun stuff! Fatique on the road is a joy! At Beaver Creek, we pulled over to sleep for ... read more
July 28th 2005
Mom drove to Whitehorse where we did laundry. We met a woman who owned 11 dogs and lived by the dam/bridge on the Yukon, where we saw a baby northern in the water... he was so cute! We have fallen in love with the waters of the North, they are so often crystal clear and give off the most compelling blue and green colors. We have decided that we must go back, this time with a canoe, no kids and no dog... haaha. We ate at Pizza Hut, got gas and drove up the road. Close to Kluane Provincial Park, we switched drivers at Christmas Creek. I drove then to kluane Village and got gas. Gas at Destruction Bay was advertised as 99.9 per litre but was actually 1.19!! ... read more
July 25th 2005
I drove through pretty non-descript country from Lac La Hache to Fort Fraser. Mom took over and I slept for an hour. She drove us to the (near) Junction of 16 and 37 to Sealy Lake Provincial Park. This park had a neat history and a lake full of trout, a bunch of noisy kids and camp collectors that do a great job of knowing everything thats going on in camp. We decided not to fish, but we now have our gear accessible for any forays into the pristine wilderness. Dot is in full heat, bleeding all over her fug. It's hard to get her to stay on her rug while we sleep. I imagine that we will have blood all over our things shortly. Ugh. We are getting going very late today. It's already 11:30 ... read more
July 24th 2005
We are driving through Spuzzum, B.C. on our way to Cache Creek. If we get there soon enough, we may still keep driving. I had a pretty bad headache and mom started driving somewhere 2 towns after Hope or so. She drove us to Lac La Hache Provincial Park, which we have dubbed "June Berry" camp, There are trees full of June Berries (Service Berries or Saskatoons for others in the country) everywhere! They hang like grapes from the trees, the funny thing is that it seems NOBODY is eating them! The kids, mom and I drove over to the otherside of the campground to the lake. Someone had created a volcano and a cat out of sand. I found an awesome little goose feather which looks like a miniture eagle feather. We ate berries at ... read more
July 23rd 2005
We camped at Silver Springs last night. The girls and I woke up at 7am and put Dot out and went to the bathroom. Then we went for a walk through the center of the campground where a crystal clear creek flows out of the ground. The girls bellied down to drunk out of the creek. the trees there were bigger than the one in our camp. Maybe 300 years or more in age. We are heading to Seattle to drop Jake off. We stopped in Auburn and the girls got to play at a nice water park while we made lunch. The traffic in Seattle was absolutely awful and I was glad to get out. Mom and I drove out to Mt. Baker Snoqualmie N.F. and all the campgrounds were full. So we found a ... read more
July 22nd 2005
I woke up at seven with Brea and we are playing SORRY! on the computer. Everyone else got up around 9 and Roy made cheese omelets and bacon and we shared our breakfast muffins. We all had a chance to havce a hot shower, which was awesome, considering we hadn't showered since Friday night before we left! Nikki fought with Dot over food and Dot wouldn't even come out to me, if Nikki was by me. They got over it eventually though. We drove to Mt. Rainier N.P. hoping to camp at the White River Campground, but it was disgustingly full. We drove out and are now camped in Mount Baker and Snoqualamie N.F. Grantwood is 15 miles north of here which is good, we need gas badly. Mt. Rainier N.P. was breathtaking. The trees are ... read more
July 21st 2005
We had a somewhat lazy morning and left around 11 am. We drove up to Missoula and did our laundry. Mom looked Sherry up in Arlee, up Hwy 93 and called her to leave a message. We drove up and called again from a gas station. We ended up being only 2 miles from her house. She lives way back in the woods with 40 acres and a creek running through the property. Her house was very cool. Cery rustic and right up my alley. We stayed for a few hours with her and she told the girls the story of how Gma Margaret met Judd, Sherry's dad. She said that Gma was about to have a baby (Gma Dawn) and came into Judd's doctor's office (the old Siren hospital in Wisconsin). She walked through a ... read more
July 20th 2005
Jake made breakfast this morning, fried potatoes and bacon and eggs. Mom and the girls and I went for a walk along the river this morning. Someone had made a neat fort on the bank in miniture, though I didn't have the camera with me to take a picture. We hope to make it to Missoula by tonight. We are on our way to Yellowstone and left at 9 am from camp. We have been seeing all sorts of neat flowers and sights in Yellowstone. When we came through this May there was snow in the south entrance and we went through a snow storm at the east entrance. We made the top loop for most of the way. We saw a real idiot standing just feet away from a bull bison with his children. Soon ... read more
July 19th 2005
I am awake and up at 6:30am. The sun is rising and lighting up the cottonwoods. There's not a cloud in the sky. Dot looks cute looking at the breeze blowing the leaves around in the trees. Everyone else is sleeping in today. We didn't leave until 1 pm and drove down from Forsyth to Shoshone National Forest and camped at the Big Game Campsite wst of Cody, Wyoming. We ate at Burger King, Dot also got 2 burgers and our leftovers, so she was in doggie heaven.... read more
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