(Note: This is part of my Big Trip 1996 retrospective travelogue. See
this
page for an introduction to it and links to all other posts)
Saturday, August 31, 1996 – We’ve covered about 700 miles in two days as we’ve left Alaska behind.
Currently, we are heading toward Watson Lake, along the Alaska Highway in
Canada’s Yukon Territory. The big [...]
(Note: This is part of my Big Trip 1996 retrospective travelogue. See
this
page for an introduction to it and links to all other posts)
Sunday, August 24, 1996 – When I left off, it was Day 14
[Sunday, August 18, 1996], and we had left the cross-roads town of Tok. About
five hours later, we pulled into Chitina (pronounced [...]
(Note: This is part of my Big Trip 1996 retrospective travelogue. See
this
page for an introduction to it and links to all other posts)
Sunday, August 18, 1996 – As I write, we are heading away from the
crossroads of Tok, Alaska and moving toward Chitina. It’s raining off and on,
and our back window was covered in gunk [...]
(Note: This is part of my Big Trip 1996 retrospective travelogue. See
this
page for an introduction to it and links to all other posts)
Sunday, August 11, 1996 – We’re in beautiful
Prince Rupert, which is on the coast of
British Columbia where we get the ferry through Alaska’s Inland Passage. We were
supposed to camp here, but it looked [...]
Just over ten years ago, my wife Lorna and I sold most of what we owned,
shipped it back to her native Britain and spent the next four months traveling
from California to Alaska to Western Canada and then down through the Western
United States to where we started. We then said goodbye to our long suffering
sub-compact Ford [...]