Leaving Alaska

Back on September 15^th it was my time to leave the beautiful state of Alaska.  My sister Linda had wanted to visit so we came up with the plan of her flying up to Anchorage and then drive as far as Seattle, Washington with me.  Between not enough time and the lack of internet services through the trip I have been lacking on keeping this blog up so I will try to give a little synopsis.

Our first stop was in Valdez, AK which turned into an overnight because we decided to take a wildlife tour the next morning.  We didn’t see a lot of wildlife but did get an up close view of the Columbia glacier the captain of the ship had to push ice to make it there and back, awesome.  On to Chicken, AK the Top of the World highway and Dawson City in the Yukon.  Steep roads with awesome views, border crossing in the middle of nowhere to say the least and just before you get to Dawson City a short ferry ride over the Yukon River into Dawson City.  Dawson city was founded because of the gold rush but the Downtown Hotel also has the Sour Toe Cocktail that deserves a blog entry of its own. 

A couple days later we are at Watson Lake, still in the Yukon and hanging our signs on the signposts along with the thousands of others that have been left over the years.  In the British of Columbia the main highlight was Telegraph Road.  We unhitched the trailer at the local grocery store and drove the 80 miles one way on this road which has outstanding views, shear cliffs that in some places there is only enough room for one and a half vehicles.

Another unfortunate highlight of this trip was when my front left brake caliper froze up.  A couple days before I hit a pot hole going over a RR track which really hit hard kinda wonder if this wasn’t the start of my problems.  Well I made it into Pemberton, BC when things really started to act up and was able to get it repaired.

The next day we crossed the border back into the US and after a couple hour sight seeing tour in the Cascades National Park I dropped Linda off at her hotel before continuing on my way to Olympic National Park and well I will try to catch all that up.

This was REALLY the condensed version of the two weeks that I spent with my sister but I tried to write out a more detailed accounting but on day four I had four pages…… way too much information.  It was a great two weeks.

I will try to do another entry in the next couple days catching things up.