Wonderful visits and a few big disappointments highlighted our epic 2024 travel adventure. After our 2023 visit to Alaska, our 2024 travel adventure should have been easy. Not so; we had some issues along the way. We visited new places, and again, like in 2023, we returned to Alaska. This time, we went to Alaska […]
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I already mentioned that we got lost in Vancouver in our motorhome and had to drive through downtown on our way to our first campground in Canada this year. The only thing that gave us hope during our trip was there were also city buses; if they could do it, we could also. We stopped
When our summer lap through Canada’s National Parks was canceled, we had to replan quickly. Our new plan was to return to Whistler and enjoy the mountains. Whistler fit the bill, and luckily, we could get a place to park the RV and visit. Whistler is the ski area that hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics
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Our Canada trip was cut short by several weeks. We had a good time, but wildfires in Jasper prevented us from making the journey as planned. Jasper is to the north of Banff and at the north end of the Icefields Parkway. After completing our cruise to Alaska this summer, we planned to spend the
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How to Plan (and take) an epic RV trip through Alaska. This is going to be a deep dive into planning and making an epic RV trip through Alaska. What did we like, what did we tolerate, was it worth it, and what did we think about each place? What should you skip or minimize
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How to Plan (and Take) an Epic RV Trip across Canada to Alaska. This is going to be part one of a two-part story. The second part will be about how to plan an RV trip through Alaska. We have lots of recommendations about how to plan an RV Trip across Canada to Alaska. I
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We traveled more than 500 miles with an engine problem through the most remote part of British Columbia. We loved our Alaska trip, but not everything was perfect. This story is about our engine problem and how we got it repaired. Not all sunshine and roses Having an engine problem after 100,000 miles on a
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Where is the wildest part of Canada? The Cassiar Highway is the wildest part of Canada. I know last week I was amusing you with my visit to the hospital but I’m not done telling stories about our trip to Alaska. Of course, we had to cross Canada both northbound and again southbound and we
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Stories about the Klondike Gold Rush are the reason that people remember Skagway. Skagway was a boomtown run by gangsters that was wild almost beyond belief. The gangsters owned the law. Skagway was the gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush.
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Our epic 2023 travel adventure took us further north and south than ever before, and in 2023, we also went further in less time than ever. I haven’t yet finished telling you about our summer adventure to Alaska, and it is already the holiday season. We visited the most remote places, and for the first
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The best full-service campground of our 2024 trip to Alaska was Discovery Yukon Lodgings. This includes both Alaska and Canada. We were lucky that we stopped. It is a big mistake to bypass this wonderful campground. We liked it so much on our northbound trip to Alaska that we extended our stay on our southbound
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During the last week of August, we were back on the Alaska Highway, this time heading southbound on the Alaska Highway. The days are much shorter than during our first visit in June. Still in August, even all night long, even with sunset after 10 PM, it never gets dark at night. It never gets
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Where is the end of the Alaska Highway? I guess it depends on who you ask. The southern end of the Alaska Highway is in Dawson Creek. The northern end of the Alaska Highway isn’t so easy to define. One thing is sure, the border from Canada into Alaska is not the end of the
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On our Alaska trip, we crossed the Yukon on the Alaska Highway. It has been a wonderful drive on a horrible road. This road has always been horrible. Much of it is a nonstop pothole. This section of the Alaska Highway crossing the Yukon was the hardest to build and the hardest to maintain. Every
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After three hundred miles, we are still on the Alaska Highway, heading west from Fort Nelson and climbing into the Northern Rockies on the Alaska Highway. The road is getting steeper, with more scenic views of mountaintops covered with snow fields. Wild animals along the route are more numerous and bigger. Views of the lakes
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After crossing Alberta and northern British Columbia we are now going north on the Alaska Highway heading to Fairbanks. So far the road is great. The Alaska Highway starts in Dawson Creek and connects Canada to Alaska. Before the Alaska Highway, the only way to get to Alaska was by plane or boat. The acronym
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The road is closed and the wildfires are between us and Alaska. We need a route around the wildfires. Our schedule is shot. Campgrounds are closed. The good news is that because we started our reroute around the wildfires near Edmonton, we have options. If this were to happen further north on the Alaska Highway,
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We are crossing Canada to Alaska and have to overcome numerous obstacles along our way. We’ve had trouble starting in and crossing Canada. These obstacles were not anticipated, and most of them we can’t do anything about. Our troubles crossing Canada are the reason we didn’t publish last week’s blog update. Some of our troubles
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