Well, it was kind of grey and cold here in Whitehorse so I didn't go play golf. We did go into Whitehorse where we had a nice lunch at Tim Horton's, laid in some supplies at Wal-Mart got gas and then Kim and her mom got a little shopping in. Tonight, we are hanging out in the campground and the internet here in the office was fast enough that I managed to get some videos posted. Due to band width limitations that campground actually blocks youtube from loading so I can't provide that direct link to each video. This link should take you to my page where you can locate the new videos.
One of the videos I managed to load was 6 plus minutes of the Hyder July 4th parade. It was certainly eclectic and well worth the time to give it a view. I also have videos of downtown Hyder and Salmon Glacier up as of 9:50 pm here in the Yukon Territory.
The current plan is to head to Dawson City tomorrow morning and then up to Inuvik for the weekend. However, we recently became aware that there is an arts festival going on in Inuvik this weekend. If we cannot get a campsite reserved or if we can't get the sightseeing flight to Tuk we may end up heading for Haines Alaska instead. We plan to get on the phone tomorrow to determine which way we will be headed.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
Cool, we have electricity tonight!
We have made it up to Whitehorse in the Yukon territory of Canada! We are camped at the High Country RV park on the east end of town. It is a real treat to be here! Last night we spent our first evening on this trip without electricity. We stayed at the Waters Edge RV Park near Deese Lake on the Cassiar highway. It was a nice little park but NO hookups, which means that in addition to no electricity there was no hot shower this morning - bummer!
We had a nice drive up today. We stopped at Jade City, a souvenir shop on the Cassiar. As you can probably guess they have all kinds of Jade products. What you probably did not know was the something like 92% of the Jade in the entire world comes from that particular area! Pictures from our tip up the cassiar are here.
I also added some additional photo's from our trip to Salmon Glacies from Hyder. You can find them here.
Tomorrow Kim and her Mom are heading into Whitehorse for some shopping. I plan to head to the Meadow Lakes golf club to get a round in. It would seem that Meadow Lakes doesn't have a web site so this review from Yelp is the most info I can provide.
Here's a couple maps for the last 2 days of driving. Day 1 Hyder to the Waters Edge Campground.
We had a nice drive up today. We stopped at Jade City, a souvenir shop on the Cassiar. As you can probably guess they have all kinds of Jade products. What you probably did not know was the something like 92% of the Jade in the entire world comes from that particular area! Pictures from our tip up the cassiar are here.
I also added some additional photo's from our trip to Salmon Glacies from Hyder. You can find them here.
Tomorrow Kim and her Mom are heading into Whitehorse for some shopping. I plan to head to the Meadow Lakes golf club to get a round in. It would seem that Meadow Lakes doesn't have a web site so this review from Yelp is the most info I can provide.
Here's a couple maps for the last 2 days of driving. Day 1 Hyder to the Waters Edge Campground.
Today we drove from Waters Edge to Whitehorse..
Saturday, July 6, 2013
July 5th in Hyder and Stewart
Just got some pictures posted of our last night here in Hyder. We started the evening at the Seafood Express bus, one of the only restaurants here. We had a Captains choice platter which included 1 piece of Halibut, 1 large scallop, 1 deep fried oyster and 6 breaded shrimp. The place is pretty eclectic, you can read more about it here.
After dinner Kim and I decided to bike to another country, which means we rode over to Canada. We wander around the town of Stewart and then stopped at a tourist shop where they had a cut out mountie that we could pose behind. While we were goofing off there a real mountie pulled up and volunteered to be in the picture's with us! What a nice guy.
After that we rode back into Hyder and hung out at the Sealaska Inn and Bar. The bar is open until 5am! We only stayed until around 11:30pm.
I also got another set of pics posted. They are from our drive from Moricetown to Hyder.
I'm trying to only post pictures that have GPS tags so you can see where they were actually taken. Somewhere in Flickr there is a maps page that will show those locations.
After dinner Kim and I decided to bike to another country, which means we rode over to Canada. We wander around the town of Stewart and then stopped at a tourist shop where they had a cut out mountie that we could pose behind. While we were goofing off there a real mountie pulled up and volunteered to be in the picture's with us! What a nice guy.
After that we rode back into Hyder and hung out at the Sealaska Inn and Bar. The bar is open until 5am! We only stayed until around 11:30pm.
I also got another set of pics posted. They are from our drive from Moricetown to Hyder.
I'm trying to only post pictures that have GPS tags so you can see where they were actually taken. Somewhere in Flickr there is a maps page that will show those locations.
The road to Whitehorse in the Yukon
We will be heading north once again later this morning. The plan is to get to Whitehorse in two days. This may not be possible as there is a whole lot of highway between here and there. We are also not sure what kind of road conditions we are going to find. We hope to get about 300 miles in today, here's a map to give you a rough idea of where we will be driving.
We will be stopping at the visitor center over in stewart on our way out so hopefully I can post some more pictures later this morning.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Two Days in Hyder, Alaska
We got to spend July 4th and 5th here in Hyder, Alaska, a town of about 100 people just across the line from Canada. Yesterday they had what can only be described as a unique 4th of July parade. I have the whole thing on video and tried to upload it to you tube last night but, after about 90% of it loaded the internet seemed to cut out so it didn't complete. I will try to get it posted tomorrow as we will be stopping by the Stewart, Canada visitor centre (that's not a type, they spell center funny in Canada) tomorrow.
Today, we drove 20 miles back "into the wild" to visit the Salmon Glacier. What an incredible site! It was a dirt road and it has been really hot and dry up here so it was very dusty but the views from the top of the mountain were incredible.
I think I was able to get some photo's of the parade, the glacier and the town posted over on Flickr. You should be able to see them here.
Because the weather has been so awesome we have decided to head for Inuvik at the beginning of the trip instead of the end. We hope to get to Whitehorse and then Dawson City in the next 3-4 days. From Dawson City it's about 200 miles of dirt on the Dempster Highway to Inuvik.
It doesn't get dark until about 11:30 around here so Kim and I are off for a bike ride.
Today, we drove 20 miles back "into the wild" to visit the Salmon Glacier. What an incredible site! It was a dirt road and it has been really hot and dry up here so it was very dusty but the views from the top of the mountain were incredible.
I think I was able to get some photo's of the parade, the glacier and the town posted over on Flickr. You should be able to see them here.
Because the weather has been so awesome we have decided to head for Inuvik at the beginning of the trip instead of the end. We hope to get to Whitehorse and then Dawson City in the next 3-4 days. From Dawson City it's about 200 miles of dirt on the Dempster Highway to Inuvik.
It doesn't get dark until about 11:30 around here so Kim and I are off for a bike ride.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Updating some links
It seems I messed up my links on yesterdays post. I also got some additional photo's posted last night. Here are some updates:
Oregon and Washington
Hot Springs Parade
Harrison Hot Springs
Photo's from July 2 and 3 in British Columbia
The youtube link was correct. Here it is again if your interested. Video's from the last couple of years are also available over there.
We have a short drive planned for today, we head into Alaska for the first time on this trip as we are planning to spend two days over in Hyder.
There is supposed to be a really great place to view bears over there so we are hoping to see some in the next day or so.
As always - thanks for reading!
Oregon and Washington
Hot Springs Parade
Harrison Hot Springs
Photo's from July 2 and 3 in British Columbia
The youtube link was correct. Here it is again if your interested. Video's from the last couple of years are also available over there.
We have a short drive planned for today, we head into Alaska for the first time on this trip as we are planning to spend two days over in Hyder.
There is supposed to be a really great place to view bears over there so we are hoping to see some in the next day or so.
As always - thanks for reading!
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
We quit early today
We didn't make it all the way to Kitwanga after all. We find found a delightful little campground here in Mauricetown Moricetown, B.C. The internet seems to be pretty quick and they have free firewood and showers - a definite plus up here where we have paid as much as $2 (Canadian) for a 3 minute shower.
On the down side, we are only about a mile and a half from this sign.
Here's the actual map for what we accomplished today.
On the down side, we are only about a mile and a half from this sign.
Here's the actual map for what we accomplished today.
Tomorrow we should be back in the Good old USA - We head for Hyder, Alaska
Photos and You Tube video
Greetings from Vanderhoof, Ca
We are making a quick stop in this small town on highway 16 in central British Columbia. We enjoyed a fun Canada day down in Harrison Hot Springs. We started the day with a pancake breakfast at the local firehouse, then enjoyed the parade and fireworks later that evening. It being Canada and all naturally we saw a Sasquatch.
He seemed pretty harmless. We have some video from the parade that I will also post if we get some fast internet along the was
Yesterday, we drove from Harrison Hot Springs to Hixon. Here's the map.
He seemed pretty harmless. We have some video from the parade that I will also post if we get some fast internet along the was
Yesterday, we drove from Harrison Hot Springs to Hixon. Here's the map.
We left Hixon at about 9:30 this morning and our final destination for today is in Kitwanga, B.C. That's still about 250 miles from where I sit right now. Here's the map for that.
The road we are traveling has a rather notorious reputation. It is known as the Highway of Tears as their seems to be a serial killer praying on young woman in this area.
We plan to be in Hyder back in the good ole USA for Friday and Saturday.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Oh Canada - It's good to be here!
Happy Canada Day! It’s about 6:30am here in Harrison Hot Springs in British Columbia Canada. I’m up early and was planning to get this posted but of course, the internet is down so I am not sure when this will actually go up.
We have been on the move the last two days. We have driven from just north of Klamath Falls all the way up here to southern B.C. We have visited some interesting places along the way. Our first stop was at Crater Lake National Park on Saturday. (Pictures Here). From there we drove North and slightly east so that we could drive through the Columbia River Gorge between the states Oregon and Washington. Saturday was a late night as we were not sure where we would get to so we did not make a reservation! I called one place and got there after hours message on the phone. They indicated that they had sites available and an after hours check in available. We drove over to the campground, crossing a very narrow toll bridge only to find the campground was full. We then had to return across that same narrow toll bridge (it was only $2 each way but still) to get back to highway 84. Our next plan was to “boondock” at a local Wal-Mart. We found one close by, drove over and found a no overnight camping sign as soon as we pulled into the parking lot. Now it’s a little after 9 pm on Saturday and we still have no place to camp! The GPS unit indicates a KOA about 30 miles further down I-84 so off we went. After only a couple of miles we saw a sign for a campground, so we pulled off the interstate to see if they had a spot. It was a local state park and not only did we get a spot it had electric, water and free showers! Yeah us. Here’s the map for Saturday’s trip.
Sunday we got rolling at around 9:30. Our first stop was at a beautiful waterfall just off the interstate called Horsetail falls. Since we still had almost 400 miles to cover we then headed straight for Voodoo Donoughts in Portland. We first learned about it from a show on the travel channel and we visited last year. They make some crazy donoughts and they have some crazy lines. We waited about 30 minutes but then we got a dozen and headed out to the RV to feast. From Voodoo it’s straight up I-5 to Redmond, then a bit east to Sumas where we cross the border. It would seem that the border guards hate their jobs and everybody that crosses as they are always nasty. Yesterday, we got a lady for the first time, she wasn’t as nasty as the guys who manned to booth were the last 2 years but I wouldn’t exactly call her friendly either. Here’s the map for Sundays’ drive.
Today, it’s Canada Day! Lots of festivities scheduled here in Harrison Hot Springs. Naturally, the first two years we came up here we did not come to Harrison, both those years it was cold and rainy. This year their having a heat wave so we probably won’t go soak in the springs but there is a nice lake here so we should still have some fun.
I have some more pictures to post but want to get this up before the internet goes down again. Here's the link to my photo sets on Flickr, I'll try to publish more photo's today.
I have some more pictures to post but want to get this up before the internet goes down again. Here's the link to my photo sets on Flickr, I'll try to publish more photo's today.
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