Day 66: AMHS Columbia, Inside Passage Foggy and cool. Bonus trip to Sitka!!We weren’t aware that our ferry was going to stop at the towns Sitka, or Petersburg, or Wrangell when we booked our passage. We had nearly two hours in Sitka. The ferry terminal, however, was some seven miles from town. No problem! A... Continue Reading →

Day 65: Juneau, AK Raining. We camped on Douglas Island, just across the water from Juneau. Tom found Fish Creek there and put his line in at a few spots. He didn’t keep any, but took some pictures of what he caught. A young Local identified the fish as cutthroat trout. He also caught something... Continue Reading →

Day 64: Haines, AK Sunny, pleasant and serene. We found showers and a decent bakery for breakfast and ate our goodies at a roadside stop overlooking Haines. We were at the ferry terminal at 10 and at noon pulled away from the dock and headed south for Juneau. It was a four-hour boat trip and... Continue Reading →

Day 63: Chilkoot Lake State Park, Haines, AK Mostly sunny, cool and serene. Before breakfast, and after only one shared cup of coffee, we went back to the river where we saw the bears yesterday. We saw three more brown bears. See “A Bear Story," a separate blog. We walked around Fort Seward in Haines.... Continue Reading →

Day 61: Million Dollar Falls, YT Sunny and chilly. Frost on the picnic table. We left the Alaska Highway yesterday at Haines Junction, Yukon, and proceeded down the Haines Highway. Moving into British Columbia, we are still driving some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Early fall colors abound in the shrubbery of... Continue Reading →

Day 60: Kluane Lake, YT Sunny and chilly. First thing in the morning, we went to the Visitor Center for Kluane NP, just two kilometers from our campsite. It was just around the mountain. At the Visitor Center the mountainside was receiving sunlight and we saw upwards of 100 Dall sheep, in smaller groups on... Continue Reading →

Day 59: Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge Sunny and chilly. There were three beavers that kept some people in the campground awake last night. The beavers were chewing down trees and hauling them to the lake. One tree hit a camper as it was being felled. I didn’t get a picture until the campers in this... Continue Reading →

Day 58: Nabesna Road, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Mostly cloudy and chilly. The Nabesna Road has been anticlimactic. The Nabesna Road of Wrangell-St. Elias is a good representative of Alaska: inaccessible wilderness. I get that we are preserving our wilderness, and the way to do that is to keep people away. Then don’t give us... Continue Reading →