Archives for August 1996

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 […]

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.” […]

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 […]

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 […]