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Alaska-To Tok and on to Valdez

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July 4th 2006
All vehicle traffic into Alaska must go through Tok (rhymes with broke), the first town you come to on the Alaska Highway. Here we turned south, and soon the road improved and we saw our second moose. We overnighted in Glenallen, a tiny crossroads town about 100 miles or so from Valdez. We were very surprised to find we had cell phone service and could access the internet on the Verizon Air Ca ... read more

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