Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Last Great Road Trip

Yesterday we left Whitehorse in the rain. The trip from there to the Alaskan border was the slowest part as the road, while mostly paved, is wavy from perma frost and frost heaves. So a person just has to go slow, but thats great because the scenery is spectacular. It quit raining and brought out some great mountains...cant wait to get the pics on. By the way, gas is $1.09 a liter in most of the stations, which is a bit high. There are some great organic graffiti on the road. They use cuts in the roads and put river rocks on them and spell out names or words...Its quite cool. We saw one great bull moose, in the water eating his stuff...He put on a good show, got him on camera and movie. We crossed the border and it was nice getting back to the USA and listening to good tunes and news again...We stopped at Tok and spent the night and will look at the wares while we are here. Mountains are still around us. Even had some fresh snow on the tops last night. There was a road rally yesterday and piles of old road racers with tops down, people in googles and leather hats. and scarves flying.It looked like Rolls, Bentley, etc type cars. Seems like I read about this at one time...Looks like the were coming from Fairbanks to who knows where. Today we will be in Fairbanks, the end of the Highway, but way more to travel to and see in the weeks and days to come..We will be doing the midnight sun run there. We will see if the tequila or beer is more powerful than the finish line. We had no dark last night and we wont for many weeks now. So much for sleep.lol

1 comment: