Just over ten years ago, my wife Lorna and I sold most of what we owned, shipped it back to her native Britain and spent the next four months traveling from California to Alaska to Western Canada and then down through the Western United States to where we started. We then said goodbye to our long suffering sub-compact Ford […]
Anchorage – Seward – Kenai Fjords
Saturday, August 31, 1996 – We’ve covered about 700 miles in two days as we’ve left Alaska behind. Currently, we are heading toward Watson Lake, along the Alaska Highway in Canada’s Yukon Territory. The big claim to fame Watson Lake has is the Sign Post Forest, hundreds of signs pointing in different directions and showing the […]
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Sunday, August 24, 1996 – When I left off, it was Day 14 [Sunday, August 18, 1996], and we had left the cross-roads town of Tok. About five hours later, we pulled into Chitina (pronounced Chitna, for some reason). A flyer for the town says “It’s not Chitna, but you can see real Alaskans in their native environment.” […]
The Inland Passage & Glacier Bay
Sunday, August 18, 1996 – As I write, we are heading away from the crossroads of Tok, Alaska and moving toward Chitina. It’s raining off and on, and our back window was covered in gunk within seconds after cleaning it at the gas station. I left off with us being in Prince Rupert, Canada, where we […]
Orange County, California To Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Sunday, August 11, 1996 – We’re in beautiful Prince Rupert, which is on the coast of British Columbia where we get the ferry through Alaska’s Inland Passage. We were supposed to camp here, but it looked like it was going to rain. I stopped in at the lovely Raffles Inn and talked them down to $40 Canadian, about $30 […]