Due South
Getting home meant a series of progressively better highways: a. Tuktoyaktuk highway to Inuvik b. Dempster highway to Dawson City c. Klondike highway to Whitehorse d. Alaska highway to B.C./Yukon […]
Category Archives: Way Way North
Arctic Perspectives
While the Dempster Highway has been around a while, in late 2017, the Tuk highway was opened, a road that connects Inuvik to the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk. Probably Canada’s […]
Solstice to Chicken
Fairbanks! We arrived June 21st for the beginning of a 4-day long Midnight Sun Festival. The above photo was taken at midnight from atop a local mountain. On this day, […]
Denali
“The high one.” We decided that if Stuart were to be named by the Dena’aina people, he might be named Denali. And we managed to be part of the […]
On Switzerland, Ice, and Fish
Once again detouring away from the Alaska Highway, at Tok, we headed south, first to Valdez and then to the Kenai peninsula. Our longest drive to date was from Valdez […]
Kluane
Picking up the Alaska Highway at Haines Junction, Yukon meant we were at the jumping off point for exploring Kluane National Park and Preserve, Kluane Lake, and the Champagne & […]
Dipping into Alaska
The Alaska Highway took us as far as Carcross, Yukon (having seen a brown bear en route) when we decided to detour once again as we dipped south into the […]
Wilds of Northern B.C.
We can now truly claim that we have visited all four corners of our beautiful province! Our northern B.C. section started in Dawson Creek, which is Mile 0 for the […]
Alberta Briefly
Heading towards Jasper, Alberta, we are always awestruck by the imposing grandeur of Mt. Robson, the highest peak in the B.C. Rockies. The last time […]
Off We Gogh to the Midnight Sun
Welcome to our re-titled blog. 37 years ago, Stuart promised us “never a dull moment” and that is how our journey has been. After looking longingly at Van Gogh parked […]
