Blogs from Yukon, Canada, North America - page 31

Von Alaska fuhren wir über den Top-of-the-World Highway Richtung Dawson City in Kanada. Der Top-of-the-World ist auf Amerikanischer Seite ein so genannter Gravel road welcher dem Auto ganz schön zusetzen kann…aber nicht unserem. Dieser Highway führt durch die Einsamkeit Ost-Alaskas und west Yukon Territories. Und er heisst wohl so, weil er über die Baumgrenze hinaus geht und man über riesige, wunderschöne nördliche Landschaft sehen kann. Bald kam die Grenze, welche leider geschlossen war. Dafür konnten wir die wunderschöne Abendstimmung bei kühlen 10 Grad beim Boarder geniessen. Leider hatte es aber auch dort enorm viele Mücken, welche uns ziemlich verstochen haben. Doch dies konnte dieser ganz speziellen Stimmung nichts anhaben. Weiter ging’s nach Dawson City welche ziemlich Gschichtsträchtig(Goldrausch) ist früher mal die Hauptstadt von Yukon war. Diese Stadt sieht auch noch heute aus ... read more

After arriving at Skagway on August 13th we got a lift from the airport to the Skagway Hostel. We dropped off our luggage and strolled around town. There were 3 large cruise ships at Skagway so there were lots of tourists in town! We found a good restaurant near the wharf where we ate halibut burgers. After that we saw the "Days of '98 show" about Soapy Smith who was a con man in the early gold rush days of Skagway. The next day we got up early to catch the 8 am train up the White Pass. We had fantastic views and there was a good commentary telling us all about the gold rush days and points of interest. At Fraser in British Columbia we caught a bus. The bus got to Whitehorse at 1pm ... read more

Day 4 July 17 482 miles taveled Out of the grain fields and into the spruce forests. Got onto the Alaskan Highway at Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Spent the night at a campground with a bunch of French Canadian pipeline construction workers. They are finding lots of natural gas in the area and will be piping some it our way. We also met a young couple from Green Bay and a couple of old geezers, like you know who, from Iowa at the camp ground. Also had a slight mishap with the laptop computer. A Geoose set it on a lawn chair when he went to get a beverage. He came back and sat on the computer and it hasn't worked since. Will be using Library services along the way until I find someone to fix ... read more

North of 60' North America » Canada » Yukon By WoodsieJuly 13th 2007Kluane National Park... read more

My Greta Garbo phase is over. No longer cycling solo. Met up again with Alain and Tom, Swiss guys that I met last year in South America, in Vancouver. The last time I saw Alain was in Bolivia when I watched him cycle off into the rain forest with Felix the map cutter, an organic farmer from Dresden. At the time I vowed that I wouldn't let myself get hurt again and rush straight into another cycling relationship on the rebound. However time is a great healer. After a year pedalling on my own it has been good fun riding with them from Vancouver to Whitehorse. We have developed our own exclusive touring language which is a combination of badly pronounced Spanish (with lots of over enthusiastic r's being rolled all over the place), Swiss-German ... read more