Alaska-To Tok and on to Valdez

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July 4th 2006

Published: July 13th 2006

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Here at last. 6,654 miles and 120 days after leaving Fernandina Beach. What a ride.

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 Card. That's better than we sometimes get in Fernandina Beach.
As we neared Valdez we came upon our first glacier, Worthington Glacier. There was an observation area and parking lot about 1/4 mile from base of the glacier. You could walk right up to it and touch it. Cool.
Soon after that the road passed through a river canyon with steep rock walls and dozens of waterfalls, some falling hundreds of feet. It was an awesome welcome to Valdez just down the road.

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