We are traveling to Tazlina today on our way to Valdez. Lots of mountains to see, but misty and not very clear. Roads are a little better but still some very rough spots. The weather has improved to sunny and warm. Stopped at the visitor center at Copper center before stopping for the night at […]
Read More →Turned out to be a decent night, a little cold and noisy, but still nice. We were up early, gassed up and dumped our tanks before heading for Whitehorse. Once in Whitehorse we viewed the S. S. Klondike – one of 18 paddle boats that helped service (mail, cargo, passengers & silver/lead ore) the area […]
Read More →Rained all last night so we woke up to a grey dreary day. We are heading for the Yukon this morning. Our first stop is Watson Lake just inside the Yukon known for its collection of over 90 thousand signs. They just seem to go on forever. Spent the rest of the day driving thru […]
Read More →Up early to drive to Hyder Alaska to visit the fish & bear viewing platform. No bears found, but we did see some salmon. We declared our short visit at the, continuing on towards the Alaskan Highway. Another long travel day thru cloudy skies and lots of bush, but we did see two black bears […]
Read More →With the rains, thunder & trains going by every 90 minutes we had a restless night, but the one saving grace was the free sani dump and potable water. Almost made it worth the lack of sleep. It was a long drive to Steward BC, thru the torrential downpour and numerous road construction, but once […]
Read More →Left Victoria yesterday, spent a nice night with Alex and his family before leaving in the morning. Our day got off to a bit of a bumpy start, with a maintenance light popping on but I managed to get that all sorted out. Then the real problems began our GPS unit kept locking up and […]
Read More →Final preparations done just waiting at the ferry terminal before heading off to Alaska . It will be a long drive and hopefully, we manage to avoid most of the forest fires burning along our route but it should be fun. If we are lucky we hope to be able to see the northern lights, […]
Read More →Slept in for the first time since we left Victoria. Had a nice leisurely breakfast, said goodbye to a couple of our travel companions then up to the room for our final packing of our bags. No problems getting out to the airport so we arrived much earlier than expected. Ate our lunch in the […]
Read More →On the road at 7am for our DMZ visit. As we get closer we start to see rows of barbed wire and watch towers, first one strand then two then three strands of wire surrounding the watch towers close together along the river banks. We get to the ticketing plaza where our guide runs in […]
Read More →Two observation tower stops today, Busan Tower and North Seoul Tower Observation and cable car. We enjoyed the cable car but skipped the observation towers. Before leaving Busan, we visited Dongbaek Island (site of an APEC meeting) and walked through Yongdusan Park. It was a very lovely walk through the forest and along the ocean […]
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