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 mountains. Managed to pick up 3 geocaches along the way. One was at the top of a bluff that took some climbing to get too. Of course I forgot to take my camera with to ... read more

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 the park later in our journey. We stopped at Copper Center, an old mining area, and visited the Museum. We also checked out the Klutina River to see if the red salmon were running. We ... read more

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 tail deer and 2 dead cats. Day 2 July 15 Miles traveled 650 Total miles 1,100 Got an early start and headed North and West across the wheat and barley fields of western Minnesota and ... read more

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 road trip to Alaska was made. Both thought it would be a great trip. Karen and Maria will miss their wilderness travelers, but with modern technology, including this blog, they will know where their guys ... read more