Sun 20-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
We allowed the weather to change our plans for today. It had rained overnight and continued on into the day, so we decided to hang around Dawson City rather than tackle gravel/dirt roads in the rain. We had a...
Sat 19-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
We started our morning with a mile or so hike up one of the tundra-covered hills nearby. The tundra was even softer and squishier than that we had walked on in Denali NP. After a scramble up a granite and...
Fri 18-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
Our route took us down the Richardson and Alaska Highways to Tok, up the Taylor Highway to Chicken, then we joined the Top of the World Highway at the Eagle turnoff. The road along the Richardson was an easy...
Thu 17-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
After getting approval from Sprinter, the Trailercraft technician started to check every connection in the van. After three hours the service manager came out and said they had found one suspect connection...
Wed 16-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
Today we learned that Trailercraft cannot get to our vehicle because the computer they use for diagnosis was sent to Anchorage and will not be back until afternoon. So we read/edited pictures and then headed...
Tue 15-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
It’s still raining. We did a bit of shopping and had a delightful conversation with Claude, a Sportsmobile forum enthusiast from Switzerland. He has a Ford van that he outfitted himself and...
Mon 14-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
Another day of heavy rain and the resulting mud. For a place that is supposed to be a near-desert, this one sure is getting a lot of rain. Again there was little to see and photograph. We left Five Mile Camp...
Sun 13-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
We headed south under light rain that turned often to heavy rain. At times we were lucky to see sun and even a rainbow, but mostly it was rain and more rain. The good news was that the clouds were generally...
Sat 12-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
After a long night of worrying, Janet decided that she and Vanessa were not going to make it to the Arctic Ocean. It was still pouring rain so there was nothing for her to see out the windows and Vanessa is...
Fri 11-Jul-2014 Alaska, Travel |
In rain and mist we continued north on the Dalton Highway. The road surface varied from good gravel to potholed and rough gravel and good paved to broken and potholed paved. The advantage of the rain was that...
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