What Vast Is

Posted by Daria The Yukon Territory is the epitome of “vast.” Forests spread across the land in all directions, interrupted occasionally by a mountain or a river or a rare dirt road. You can decide to pass up a gas station and live to regret it. Yukon is home to about 32,000 people. Imagine the [...]

Frantic Fun

Posted by Sierra “What did the mama buffalo say to her baby buffalo as he headed off to school?” “Bye-son!” This is just one of the jokes that can be heard at the Frantic Follies show in Whitehorse, Yukon. There are many other jokes to keep you laughing—including bad and good ones. Founded by Jim [...]

These Springs Are Hot

Posted by Daria Many guidebooks tout Liard River Hotsprings Provincial Park as a must-do stop on the Alaska Highway. It’s a lovely park, and the hot springs are pretty nice. Unfortunately, our visit there coincided with the first warm hours we had experienced in many days. And it’s not much fun to be sitting in [...]

“The Golden Heart of Alaska”

Posted by Daria That’s what Fairbanks calls itself. The second-largest city in Alaska, Fairbanks is big and sprawling. It reminded me of Las Cruces, N.M., with a college off at one side, a small downtown, a large mall, and a lot of strip malls and stand-alone businesses. Stan says it’s a town that shows the [...]

Inside the Inside Passage Towns

Posted by Sierra Along the Alaska’s Inside Passage, tourists frequently visit several towns. These are easily accessible by ferry (see: “The Alaska Marine Highway System” by Sierra). We are going to journey through many of these towns. Here we goooooooooooo! Our first stop is Ketchikan. This used to be Alaska’s largest city but is currently [...]

A Highway on the Water

Posted by Sierra Beep! Hoooooooooonk! Toot-toot! Here come the cars on the Alaska Marine Highway System! What’s this—they’re boats? That’s right! The AMHS is a stretch of water around much of Alaska’s coast. On the AMHS, the most common source of transportation is by ferry. No, not the magical flying kind with wands, the boat [...]

Where we are, June 11

We’re still traveling the Inside Passage on the Alaskan Marine Highway, having boarded and exited three different ferries (had to back off the second, at 1 o’clock in the morning, but survived). We’ll bunk three nights in Juneau, just below the Mendenhall Glacier, before getting on a ferry for Haines. Photos from the first day [...]

Where we are, June 5

Smithers, British Columbia. Yes, we’ve come a long way from Corrales, considering the motorhome went nowhere for five days. But we’ve got a ways to go before we even turn south (let alone start thinking about Nova Scotia in July). Fairbanks is just to the right and a little below the ‘S’ in US. Tomorrow [...]

Vancouver Variety

Posted by Sierra Vancouver, British Columbia, has many places to visit. Here’s a list of some of those places. You don’t have to visit all of them, just the good ones. Granville Island: Granville is a small island that is accessible by “aquabus” (Aquabuses are small boats that are NOT free and fit maybe 20 [...]

Things I Learned on the Sound Transit (Which Happens to be Full of Sound)

Posted by Sierra The Sound Transit, the bus system in Seattle, is the only way of getting anywhere without murdering your poor footsies to the point where they say, “Marge, I’m tired! I wanna go to bed!!” And Marge decides not to differ, so you’re walking around Seattle with two fast-asleep feet that aren’t gonna [...]

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