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Yesterday when exploring the area near Valdez we happened across this young bear. He was dining and started with a salad of the greens he is in.  LOL

  We are just relaxing today in Valdez at the Bayside RV Park. Depart tomorrow for Anchorage and Soldotna. Above is one of the many snow melt mountain waterfalls, this one surrounded by trees instead of rocks. I am starting … Continue reading →

A story we heard about Tern Lake. Several years ago a truck loaded with vodka overturned spilling vodka into the lake. The story then goes “no tern was left unstoned“.

For the best and biggest hamburger on the Dalton Highway, HotSpot Cafe & Gifts. 60 mile Dalton Highway, 5 miles north of the Yukon river bridge. The one we had was excellent! Just sorry we did not think to take … Continue reading →

  A moose cow and her yearling calf we believe. One of the many glaciers we passed by during our drive across Canada. The Homer spit extends quite a distance into Kachemak Bay with the Kenai mountains across the bay.

Due to the difficulty in finding Internet and an electric plug-in some of the posts on this blog will not necessarily be in the order of our trip. Wi-Fi is not too hard to find. A place that allows one … Continue reading →

Thankfully the Dalton Highway is a bit less crooked than the Alyeska Pipeline, just a bit. The pipeline was built with all the crooks to allow for contraction and expansion during the extreme temperature changes summer through winter.

Our Roadtrek, our home away from home for this adventure to Alaska. We are having a great trip and learning how well suited to this kind of travel the Roadtrek is. The Alaska roads have certainly given it and us … Continue reading →

We returned today to Fairbanks after visiting the Arctic Circle via the Dalton Highway, also known as the “Haul Road”. Quite a drive on some pavement and lots of gravel road.