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Chicken, Alaska

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Judy

According to local legend, the original settlers wanted to call this place ‘ptarmigan’ after a native fowl, but they couldn’t agree on how to spell it and decided to just call it ‘Chicken’ instead. We saw some ptarmigan with a clutch … Continue reading →

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Fairbanks

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Judy

So now we’ve been as far north, and as far west in Alaska and the US as we’re going to get. It’s all south, and mostly east from here. We spent a rainy night in the Regency Fairbanks Hotel, and … Continue reading →

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Denali National Park

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Judy

We’ve just spent 4 days camping in a couple of different campgrounds in Denali National Park, and got to see Mt McKinley/Denali/’The Great One’ for several days in a row. What a treat! We drove north on the Parks Highway … Continue reading →

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Back in Anchorage, briefly

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Judy

We’re back in the Big Smoke for a night, to have a shower, resupply, do some washing and dry out … from excessive rain not alcohol consumption. It rained all of last night and a couple of things got a … Continue reading →

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Homer

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Judy

While we have a few modern conveniences (ie, power and internet thanks to the McDonalds at Homer), I’ll write another post before I forget what’s happened. We’re now at Homer, which is as far as the road goes down the … Continue reading →

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Seward

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Judy

I know, it’s been a few days. We have been camping at Exit Glacier, just north of Seward. A bit of history – William Seward was Lincoln’s Secretary of State, and he was the person who organised to purchase Alaska … Continue reading →

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Anchorage

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Judy

Driving down the Glenn Highway to Anchorage on Thursday was very spectacular – the high snowy peaks of the Wrangell mountains, and 2 glaciers – the huge Worthington Glacier across a valley, and then the smaller but much closer Matanuska … Continue reading →

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Tok

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Judy

It was only a couple of days ago, but I’ve already forgotten most of the drive between Whitehorse and Tok, which probably means that not a lot happened. We have been listening to the audiobook of Stephen King’s Mr Mercedes … Continue reading →

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Whitehorse

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Judy

We need to backtrack a bit to what we’ve been doing since we got off the ferry in Skagway, just so that we remember it later. It will probably read a bit like a ‘What I did on my holiday’ … Continue reading →

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Guess where we are …

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Judy

Been offline for a couple of days, camping in the Yukon and then across the border in Alaska. We’ve hit the Big Smoke now, but sadly I couldn’t find a Youtube clip of the most appropriate song. Michelle Shocked seems … Continue reading →

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