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By AHHlaska
June 27th 2006

And then there were two...

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Foot on Fifty
Dad steps on Alaskan soil for the first time, way back in Ketchikan.

Greetings from Yukon Territory! It feels like we’ve been here a long time—we’ve run into some trouble, and the road is feeling long. Dad’s been feeling homesick for a while, and that eventually translated into physically sick. We took him to see a doctor in the little Yukon town of Watson River, and he had a heart flutter. So he is leaving on a jet plane—back to US medical care, back to his beloved Mary. We put him on a plane this morning, Monday June 25. He’s doing better and I really believe getting back to resting well in his own [View Full Entry]

By Portland girl
June 15th 2006

My Job

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This is my boss Nikki very pregnant

Hey all. I'm working in the Yukon now. I'm hanging out with a lot of non-church type people and I'm really enjoying it. You'll see pics of my job, and going to a bar (I had a coke to drink so relax :) but here's a little known secret: I love to dance) and of Whitehorse. Hope you all enjoy! [View Full Entry]

The library, bank and postoffice all in one building!

By Laura G
June 5th 2006

Life is Short but Sweet for Certain

North America » Canada » Yukon » Watson Lake

Amazing!!

Hi everyone, So we have offocially made it through the wilderness. We started off driviing on the Sea to Sky Highway, which was unbelievable. It literally starts in the coast of British Colombia and brings you through mountain ranges and summits that make you feel like you can touch the sky. The views were spectacular. It brought us to Clinton, BC. From Clinton we drove through forests after forests to get to Smithers, BC. The forest started to turn into the Arctic Black Spruce forests that I love so much. The trees are so spindly and unique. It reminds me of [View Full Entry]

By AnotherLife
April 25th 2006

Whitehorse

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Trouble in Paradise

April 25th On to Whitehorse. Now over 60 degrees north latitude. I arrived in the Cessna ahead of the road-bound travelers, but unfortunately, as has been the case in most locales, the museums are closed for the winter. Reopenings are typically posted as mid-May. There was a theater advertising what looked to be an interesting experience in Watson Lake yesterday, but it was not open for the season yet. What a spectacular flight it was today. Most of what I saw on the flight today was indistinguishable to me from Alaska. After Scott and Maria arrived, I took her for a [View Full Entry]

By DCtoANC
November 7th 2005

The Alaska Highway: Dawson Creek--Watson Lake--Whitehorse

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View from the Road

It’s now day 2 of driving on the Al-can and we haven’t made it that far. We’ve only driven about 5 hours each day -- we made it as far as Whitehorse, in the Yukon, today. Yesterday, on the Dawson Creek to Watson Lake section, we saw so many Caribou - most of them were standing in the middle of the road, apparently licking salt off the road. We also saw a Big Horn Sheep - just one on a section where some rocky cliffs came close to the road. He ran off into some pine trees pretty fast once he [View Full Entry]

By Dave Dave
September 14th 2005

Wheels Pt 2

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Almost at Eagle Plains
Notice the wonky tyre tracks!

Here we go again, another blogg from the bike. So here I am at Eagle Plains, essentially a few transportable buildings that are close to 30 years old and in their time were at the peak of technology. Because the place is small and in the middle of no-ware (people I tried to ring in the next town south didn’t know where it was and thought it was in the USA) it has to be totally self sufficient. That means water and sewage management (liquids will freeze in the winter) has to be done on site while you have to generate [View Full Entry]

By Dave Dave
September 7th 2005

"The wheels on the bike go round and round" - Traveling The Dempster Highway

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Day 1 Views
Notice the stunted trees, "fall colors" and mountians in the distance.

http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_1uJ.html A new direction of travel, a new adventure and a new mode of transport. Having flown to Inuvik after my paddle it was time to pick up my bike and food supplies so I could start the ride south through the Yukon Territory to a town called Dawson City. This sounded easy enough, until I reached the shipping company who informed me that my bike was still sitting in the shipping yard about 1500km away. With a start like that things could only get better! While waiting for the bike to be flown in, I met up with some friends [View Full Entry]

By MystikNorth
July 28th 2005

Day 10

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Sam McGee's Bridge
This was crossable when we came in May, now it is a danger zone...

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 [View Full Entry]

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