After a cappuccino, and some WiFi time it was back on the truck and on the way to Lake Louise. We stopped at Lake Louise Mall to get info about bus travel for Jill who is returning to England. From the Mall Lake Louise was 45 min away to the lake and a ½ km to the camp site. This night was spent at a campsite inside an electrified fence. On the way to the showers a grizzly with two cubs was seen outside the electric fence. We all watched until it became dark. The bear count has reached over 20 since the beginning of the trip. The morning wakeup was early so that the 7:00 bus could be met by four of our group. I went with the truck so that I could have ... read more

The Big Orange Truck While standing beside the Truck and speaking to a long haul driver that takes loads up to Prudhoe Bay I was told , “ that is a bus…I drive trucks,” It sure feels like a truck when you see what a lot of stuff it holds and how high off the ground it stands and that you have to climb a ladder to get up to the seats.. Twenty-three strangers met at Anchorage at the Duke Hotel. The Big Truck was waiting outside when I arrived by cab at the parking lot. Introductions were made all around and as names floated about in the air we all prepared to find space on the truck. Climbing the ladder to get into the truck proper at first was a bit tricky. It goes ... read more

May 12 to 15 Dalton Highway from Fairbanks north to Prudhoe Bay and south as far as Chena River State Park The Dalton Highway is 416 miles straight north of Fairbanks. Well not quite. The highway meanders along the Prudhoe Bay Pipeline, past mountain peaks draped in snow and stunted trees and lots of stones from small to big. The road is winding, steep, and kept up by the state of Alaska. It was built in 1974 in just 154 days. Crews moved from south to north meeting and then working again in another section. At this time of year all is frozen and fine brown silt covers the roadside and all that passes. Our truck, at the end of a run, is totally encrusted in the dusty sand including the spout from where we ... read more

OK in the middle of nowhere I have now been thrown off the internet twice.... apparently the first 15 minutes are free and the cashier was giving me free minutes...have now bought an hour.... willhave to get my laundry out before that time is up... Have figured out my unease and chaotic thinking and confusion in my packing and doing and blogging... its the%^#@$(*&% time constraints!!.... in eating, in sleeping on early days ...in getting the tent down or up..... in spending time at stops either pit or visits.... for internet access ... for getting the cooking done ... and on and on.... Am on another persons schedule.... and that schedule involves getting to camp grounds and to towns and to places in good time to catch ferries or cook the evening meal. This is ... read more

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