8/9/2013 – Dawson to Whitehorse

Today we headed out of Dawson for the 9 hour drive to Whitehorse. The drive was pretty and we stopped a few times along the way to stretch our legs or take pictures or eat. We had a stop at…

8/8/2013 – Dawson, Yukon Territory

This morning we got up and had breakfast at the hotel and headed out on a rafting trip on the Klondike River. We started just outside of Dawson and floated back into where the Klondike joins the Yukon in Dawson.…

8/7/2013 – Tok to Dawson City

Today we left Tok Alaska headed for the Yukon. It was going to be an 8 hour drive which we were not looking forward to. Our tour guide Matt and our bus driver Lance loaded the bus just after 9…

8/7/2013 – Evening in Dawson

Last night we went to the top of a mountain above Dawson to take pictures and toast the midnight sun. It’s called the dome. The views were beautiful in every direction. Someone built a little log bench so we got…

8/6/2013 – Fairbanks to Tok

Tuesday August 6th Today we had some free time in Fairbanks to look around the town before heading towards the Yukon and Tok. We walked downtown from our hotel by way of a scenic bike path that ran alongside a…

8/5/2013 – The journey to Fairbanks

Monday August 5th. Today we reluctantly left Denali National park for the ride to Fairbanks. We rode the McKinley Explorer train again this time north to Fairbanks. This is the northern most town of any size in Alaska. It is…

8/5/2013 – Denali National Park

Monday August 5th This morning we woke up a little later than we had been since we had an 8:00 start today. We had breakfast at the Sourdough restaurant on site. They had handkerchiefs for napkins and tin coffee cups…

8/3/2013 – Train ride to Denali

Sunday 8/4/2013 Today we got up very early to take an 8 hour train ride to Denali. We had hoped to take a flight trip to Mt. McKinley to land on a glacier. We boarded the McKinley explorer train for…

8/2/2014 – Trip to Kenai Fjords

We started the morning of Saturday 8/2 the Alaska Railway headed from Anchorage to Seward to see the Kenai Fjords national park. The train ride was about 4 hours but was not moving very quickly. We saw beautiful mountains and…

8/1/2013 – Anchorage

We arrived in Anchorage and made our way to the Westmark hotel. The view from our room on the 14th floor is spectacular. Here are some pictures of that. It doesn’t get dark here until 10:30. We have been traveling…