Day 15 (July 12, 2008) Goodbye Valdez, Hello Yukon Territory (Again) As you recall, I spent the night at the Sea Otter campground right on Valdez Harbor. I awoke this morning to bright blue skies with just a whisper of white clouds. The air was crisp and you could see your breath…calm and the harbor was like a sheet of glass. Hated to leave this setting but I had a deadline to make to get close to Haines for my ferry ride to Bellingham. I slept very well in the cool night air. I had asked the night before where was [View Full Entry]

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hallo ihr lieben, haben eben mit erschrecken feststellen müssen, dass ihr nun fast drei wochen auf diesen eintrag warten musstet...die zeit vergeht wie im fluge. hier erst einmal das neueste: wir kommen wieder nach hause, und zwar am 22. november! also, man sieht sich schon bald wieder. seit dem letzten bericht haben wir mal wieder viel erlebt. den alaska highway sind wir von fort nelson aus noch bis watson lake im yukon territory gefahren. danach haben wir dann einen weit abenteuerlicheren weg gewählt, und zwar den campbell highway, der bis carmacks geht. dieser sogenannte highway ist eigentlich mehr eine schotterpiste, die [View Full Entry]

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There’s a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land — oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back — and I will. -Robert Service, from Spell of the Yukon Well Faithful Reader, I have returned from yet another excursion into the great wild yonder, and while my written recounting of the events that have unfolded will in all liklihood be [View Full Entry]

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Hi guys, As you an see I am making up time and getting my blog entries posted on the computer. As I mentioned WiFi is not always available. In fact, coming through Yukon, cell phone service was not available. I had to purchase a phone card to call my family to let them know where I am at. When your family does not hear from you and knowing you are in a part of North America where a person can disappear and never be seen again, well, if give a peace of mind. Did I mention that I ran into rain [View Full Entry]

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July 4th 2008 Happy Belated Canada Day!!!! We hope everyone has enjoyed their long weekend off enjoying Canadian things to do! Our story continues...in Fairbanks, Alaska, a lovely city of 80,000ish people (more than the total people who live above latitude 60 in the whole of Canada). We wandered through the Museum of the North where there were great displays of wildlife, native culture and the ice age. They had two interesting replicas of frozen ice age animals found in Alaska, a baby wooly mammoth and a bison, dated to about 30,000 years ago. We browsed the art gallery and found [View Full Entry]

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We left Valdez about 2:30 in the afternoon. Terry and I left before the main group as we wanted to stop a bit and take some pictures on the way out. The group caught up to us just as we were near the top of Thomson Pass. It took us some time to catch up to them after our pictures were taken, and we went on to Tok as a group. We hit a bit of rain in the mountains just before we arrived at Tok, but otherwise the trip was in sun and nice conditions. The trip thus far as [View Full Entry]

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Hello from Whitehorse, the last night of our holidays, we are a day behind oz so it's Tuesday night at 8.20pm. We leave Wednesday at 11.55pm and arrive back in Sydney on Friday morning. Our last travel blog left us at Raspberry Island and we were supposed to do a half day bear view via sea plane in Katmai National Park, home to over 2,000 brown bears and at 3.00am that morning the wind shook our cabin and continued to do so until we we left at 10.00am. Unfortunately we did not get to do our bear view and this was [View Full Entry]

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We left Whitehorse on Monday morning in a steady rain, and the temperature was only about +8. The rain would last all the way to Pelly Crossing, about 300 kilometers. At times the clouds were right down to highway level. Needless to say, the visibility was poor and we didn't see too much scenery other than the forests along side of the road. It has been interesting at least to see how the trees are becoming smaller as we travel north. Given the extend of the rain, I managed to stay mostly dry, with the exception of my feet. My new [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Whitehorse after a days run from Watson Lake. The terrain was not as mountainous and scenic as the day before, but lots of lakes and rivers and beautiful nonetheless. The town of Whitehorse is rich in history from the gold rush days, and does a booming tourist induscry. As the weekend we are here corresponds with the summer solstice, it also attracts tourists to see the very long days. In fact, on the night of the solstice, we left Whitehorse on a motorcycle ride that didn't start until 11 PM, and we didn't return until nearly 2 AM [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday June 17 We left Fort St. John at 9 AM in the rain and started our ride to Fort Nelson. The rain let up quickly, but came back in frequent showers along the way. The trip was mostly a paved road through the bush, with few features to be impressed about. It kind of reminded me of driving to Edson, but about 3 times as far. Countless black spruce bogs along the way. Things got a little better as the view opened up to show us some mountains around Pink Mountain, and the descent down “Suicide Hill” to the Sakanni [View Full Entry]

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