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We made it to Smithers, BC on July 30th and stayed at the Fort Telkwa RV Park which was a little bit outside the city limits of Smithers. It was a very nice RV park that sat right on the river with every amenity that you would need PLUS they had FREE RV washing (which we were in dire need of). We ended up staying here 2 nights to get ourselves a plan as to how to proceed from here since the roads we needed to take were still closed due to the wildfires. We ended up having to go about 300 miles out of our way to get back to the States which took an extra day. It wasn't a big deal considering the devastation that the Canadians were facing. As we were traveling through ... read more

Started heading back and had to go through the Yukon AGAIN so I thought I would take pictures this time to show you some of the road. Now mind you this is just a snippet of how some of the road is but you will at least get the picture of what it is like. Enjoy the show! ???... read more

We left Palmer this morning and made our way towards Valdez. Stopped for the night here in Glennallen since we don't have reservations until tomorrow night in Valdez. It is a small RV park called Northern Nights. While it is quaint, it is tight for a 45ft Coach. The amenities are, how shall we say, rustic. She asked if I would be showering in my own rig and I said yes so she did not expain any further. I think you will understand when you see the picture of the bathroom. Sometimes I just have to laugh at the situations we get into. They do have dessert nights on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday so we were in luck seeing as we were here on a Monday. We headed over at 7pm sharp to partake in the ... read more

RV parks are scarce in the Denali National Park area so we ended up staying about 27 miles outside the entrance area in a tiny, and I mean a dot, of a town called Cantwell at the Cantwell RV Park. There really wasn't much to it except that it had 30amp and water. It mostly housed Federal workers from the railroad. The owners were extremely nice and accommodating and it was quiet. We ventured out the following day to find Mt. Denali formerly known as Mt. McKinley. The owners of the park told us to go up the road about 50 miles to the South View Point area where, if we were lucky, we would be able to get a good view. Only 30% of the time are you able to view "the mountain" because of ... read more

Happy 4th of July! ?? While I am starting this blog off by wishing you a happy 4th I have to back track a little. We left Whitehorse, YT Sunday after staying two days in the Walmart parking. We were told that the road after Whitehorse was not very good but how bad could it be right? We had the intention of traveling about 200 miles to the town of Destruction Bay and then going on to Tok, AK the next day. That way we could break up the trip if the road was bad. Well let's just say that the road was as bad, if not worse, than we expected plus it was raining the entire day. Not a hard rain but a steady drizzle. The good thing about this was it made it so ... read more