Bonanza creek road
June 7, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Still active gold mines here.
Tony Beets said to take school bus along this road.
Dempster hwy - south end
June 7, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Along the first part of Dempster, before Tombstone park.
Tombstone center and campground
June 7, 2017 in Canada ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
Od 35874
Miles B4 Dempster 64, 17.6 mpg
Miles up Dempster 45, 16.7 mpg
Soc 84 percent ( inverter on stby all night)
Nicely done interpritive center.
Stayed in the campground right on the creek.
CoolRead more
Eagle Plains - on the Dempster hwy
June 8, 2017 in Canada ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
Destroyed a tire on Dempster - made it to eagle plains and they have ordered tires from Inuvik. Due tomorrow.
EAgle plains
June 9, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Od 36063
Miles 188
Mpg 20.0
Tire did not make it this morning - maybe on the later truck
Arctic Circle
June 9, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Drove slowly up to Arctic circle with no spare while waiting for tires.
Wanted to see the Richardson mountains before heading back south.
Last picture is our not so good tire.
Got the word tires onRead more
Tundra plants
June 9, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
At eagle plains
Spongy to walk on.
Out of eagle plains
June 9, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Tires came in at 7:45pm, we are on the road South at 8:20pm - taking advantage of afternoon nap and 23 hr day to go to better camp spot.
Have to say eagle plains did a great job.
Dempster south
June 10, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Od 36175
112 miles (including up to Arctic circle)
18.8 mpg
40 F and windy in morning.
Stayed in gravel "pit" along hwy - great views.
New tires doing fine so far.
Nearly 24 hrs daylight - stopped atRead more
Back in dawson city
June 10, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Visitor center internet actually works!
Getting some grocery's and looking for car wash - van is more mud than white :)
Yukon river campground
June 10, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
SOC 89.2 percent
Od 36375
Miles 199.9
22.3 mpg
51 F
Crossed Yukon river on very small ferry just outside of Dawson to get on Top o World hwy.
Staying in campground on Yukon just above ferry.
On theRead more
Top of the World Highway
June 11, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Very nice - wide open.
46 F
On the way to Tok.
Chicken AK
June 11, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Good pie and the Pedro gold dredge.
Tok to Glenallen on the alcan
June 11, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
SOC 90 percent
Od 36733
Miles 358
Mpg 19.0
Stopped to help firefighter lady with flat tire.
Staying at Tolena wilderness park - a commercial park, but nicely laid out along river.
On the way toRead more
Traveler
My philosophy is that if you take enough pictures, random chance will make a couple look ok.
susan macvicar"They" always say that cloudy weather makes for great pics...and I'd say from this, that it's true!
Anchorage
June 12, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Od 36918
184.4 miles
18.8 mpg
Staying at Merrill Field Inn - right across from airport. Lots of airplane noise - music to my ears.
Doing aviation museum tomorrow, then on to Homer.
Laundry stop before air museum
June 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Coin op laundry prices have skyrocketed!!
Nice cemetary next door.
Alaska Aviation Museum
June 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Historic restored Alaska planes.
Had one of the early 737s with the kit to operate on gravel runways.
TravelerThe gravel suppression ski ended up being a huge panic program at Boeing. They sold the gravel kit to allow operation on gravel runways in Alaska to the customer without really having a solution in mind, and it turned out that the simple solution (brushes around the nose wheels) did not work -- it actually sent more gravel into the engine than without it. They ended up building a gravel runway for testing, and fitted a 737 with screens on the engines and with high speed cameras to test various solutions -- finally found that the ski did a good job suppressing gravel disturbed by the tires.
Homer, AK
June 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Od 37181
Miles 283
20.7 mpg
46 F
First place we have been to that is really busy.
Dozer had a fall and seems to have hurt a leg joint, but doing better now - will find a vet tomorrow if he is notRead more
Sheep Mountain Lodge
June 14, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Od 37519
Miles 339
Mpg 20.0
43 F (morning)
Splurged a bit and stayed at Sheep Mountain Lodge on the Glen Highway.
On the way to Kennicot and Mcarthy (of TV Fame).
Chitina
June 15, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌫 18 °C
Decided to bag McCarthy - 60 miles of rough looking gravel.
Having a burger, then on to Valdez.
Richardson hwy to Valdez
June 15, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Very scenic hwy to Valdez.
Valdez
June 15, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Od 37795
Miles 284
Mpg 21.4
Nice town.
Scenic.
Very large marina.
Terminus of Alaska pipe line.
Note eagle nest on top of street light.
Lake Kluane, YT
June 16, 2017 in Canada ⋅ 🌧 0 °C
Od 38309
Miles 514
Mpg 19.7
37 F
SOC 85
On the way back home.
Very nice CG on shore of the lake.
Really nice - have some small cabins as well as tent and rv sites - 5 stars.
A bit chilly - new snowRead more
Watson Lake, YT
June 17, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Of 38753
Miles 443
Mpg 19.7
Ate dinner in Watson Lake (the town), then camped in Watson Lake campground - Yukon gov cg - nice.
Muncho Lake Park & Stone Mountain Park
June 18, 2017 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Really scenic section of Alcan highway.
Expected to be boring, but really nice.
Outhouse with a view.
1421 miles from home