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Alaska Highway I – The Road
Now that we have the first 600 mi of the Alaska Highway behind us, I know that this highway has many faces – beautiful ones, interesting ones, and some not so pleasant ones. Rather than squeezing it...
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Alaska Highway II – The Wildlife
The abundant wildlife in the widely uninhabitated Canadian Northwest and Alaska is surely one of the reasons why tourists travel this route. All photos on this post – except the beaver – have been...
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Alaska Highway IIa – Watching a Bear Family
We were lucky to watch a black bear mother with her three cubs, right from the Alaska Highway between Watson Lake and Teslin Lake in Yukon Territory. We spent almost a half hour at the highway...
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Alaska Highway III – The Scenery
At Dawson Creek, the Alaska Highway begins in the foothills east of the Northern Rockies, traverses the mountains between Fort Nelson (mile 283) and Muncho Lake (mile 411), winds its way towards the...
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Alaska Highway IV – The Oil Highway
As unique and breathtaking as the Alaska Highway is – there are also a few annoying things. First – there are parts with really bad surface conditions, and with long and nerve-wrecking construction...
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In Yukon Territory
We spent 5 days crossing the Yukon Territory, Canada’s northwestern province, on 570 miles of the Alaska Highway between Watson Lake and the Canada/ Alaska border. It is named after the mighty Yukon...
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In Alaska
Finally, after 4 weeks of driving from Hilton Head, we arrived in Alaska. Crossing the border on the Alaska Highway, we were greeted by the mighty Wrangell mountain ranges, with peaks soaring over...
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Denali National Park
Denali National Park was the top destination of the whole trip. After picking up my son Oliver and his family at the Anchorage airport and joining us in their rental RV for the next 14 days, we drove...
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Alaska is more than Denali
I know I didn’t post for more than 5 weeks – primarily because we almost never ever stayed in campgrounds with a sufficiently fast and reliable internet connection; after all, we’ve been close the end...
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The long journey back
It’s about 4,500 miles from Anchorage to Hilton Head using the shortest possible road connections, but I chose a route that took me along the Canadian Rockies and into Idaho and western Montana, where...
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