Category: Alaska

I’ve been watching the weather forecasts to make another try to get to Skagway, and yesterday, though not great, was the best day in Skagway for 10 days or so, and was forecast to get as the day progressed. in both Skagway and Whitehorse. The day turned out to...

I had my daughter up for a visit for 3 days over this past weekend, and the one thing she had on her must-do list was seeing Skagway again. On Sunday we headed down, with strong winds and flood warnings in the weather forecast. The Fall colours were mostly...

Yesterday was the first our of 2-day drive around “The Golden Circle”. Although it deserves much more time, we’re basically just killing time while the Yukon Quest mushers get to Dawson where we’ll meet them again. We were away from Whitehorse at 08:00, with the temperature sitting at -24°C...

On Day 12 of the trip, Wednesday, August 12th, we drove 224 km (139 mi) from Denali National Park to Tangle Lakes Campground on the Denali Highway. The next day was a long one, 476 km (296 mi) to Tok via Copper Center. We left Riley Creek Campground just...

On Monday (August 10th), I dog-sat while the rest of the group took a shuttle bus to the Eielson Visitor Center and back. On Tuesday, it was my turn. Cathy and MJ really wanted to see the dog sled demonstration, but other than that, noe of them had any...

After some intensive days, things slowed down enough that I can put 3 days in one blog post, with “only” 24 photos 🙂 On Saturday (August 8th), we drove the 383 km (238 mi) from Seward to Talkeetna, then onSunday, continued on another 245 km (152 mi) to Denali...

Our second full day in Seward would have lots of variety, and we split up for a while. Our first job of the day, though, was to find a new place to park our motorhomes. Unable to find a site at the City’s waterfront parks in town, we had...

On Wednesday night (August 5th), we settled in at Seward for our first multi-night stay of the trip. We had 2 major activities planned for Seward – a marine wildlife tour and a visit to the Alaska SeaLife Center, and then whatever else might come up. On Thursday morning,...

On Wednesday, August 5th, we went on a Portage Glacier cruise, visited the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, then drove the 108 km (80 mi) to Seward and got settled for our first multi-day stay of the trip. While the others were getting ready for the day, I went for...

We had built some flexibility into our itinerary, and that had already become useful, as the days were much shorter than we thought they’d be (that could have something to do with our “early to bed, late to rise” regime) 🙂 We had also re-thought some of our campgrounds,...