Before I start the story of the trip down the Alaska Highway, let me tell you about the Alaska Highway Bible. If you are going to take the trip yourself, you simply must purchase a copy of the Milepost. Yes, half of it or more is advertisements. But the other half is so valuable, you […]
This post was going to be the story of adventures (and misadventures) on our trip down the Alaska Highway. But to get to the full drama, I must start the story two days earlier, before heading out of town for the 3,500 mile drive. The pre-trip shenanigans turned out to be enough of a story […]
I have a lot of stories to share regarding the last week before I left Alaska and the drive down the ALCAN. But for today’s post, I thought I’d give a visual glimpse of the ALCAN by sharing one photo from each day. My sister drove with me. We left on Friday, October 6, 2017 […]
During the week that this posts, provided there are no more delays, I will find myself leaving Alaska. First I head north through Alaska, then south once I hit Canada until I enter back into the US at one of the 13 Montana border crossings. I have written about Alaska many times: Eating Whale in […]
In a previous post, I shared the Top 6 Things I Wished I’d Done in Alaska. There were actually seven but I had a lot to say about the seventh so decided it deserved a post of its own. Anchorage is filled with beautiful multi-use trails. These are paved throughout the city and I have […]
If everything goes according to my grand master plan, I will be leaving the state I’ve called home for two and a half decades in less than 12 weeks. That, and the beautiful light-filled summer at hand, has got me thinking about the uniquely Alaskan opportunities I’ve had here, about what I will miss and, […]