Roll Call Alaska 2014
Anyone traveling to Alaska in 2014? We ,my wife and I, are planning a trip and was wondering if anyone is planning on going in 2014 also. Would go this year, except we have two weddings to go to in...
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On Tuesday we drove from Dawson City to Chicken over the Top of the World Highway. I thought it was a very interesting and fun road to drive. The biggest problems were passing large trucks on narrow ledge roads and the dust on the Alaska section. Our Jeep was smothered in red dust.
We stopped in Chicken for a half hour at the trading post and were not very impressed. The only reasons I see to go to Chicken are to say you have been in a place with a funny name and to take the shortcut to and from Dawson City. So we drove on to Tok. The Taylor Highway was in many ways far worse than the Top of the World.
We drove on to Valdez yesterday. The first part of the drive on the Richardson through the mountains is very beautiful as is the latter part of the Richardson Highway in the mountains just before reaching Valdez. Valdez itself is spectacular.
We are staying at Bear Paw Campground. Despite being a gravel-covers lot, it is a very nice little park.
We stopped in Chicken for a half hour at the trading post and were not very impressed. The only reasons I see to go to Chicken are to say you have been in a place with a funny name and to take the shortcut to and from Dawson City. So we drove on to Tok. The Taylor Highway was in many ways far worse than the Top of the World.
We drove on to Valdez yesterday. The first part of the drive on the Richardson through the mountains is very beautiful as is the latter part of the Richardson Highway in the mountains just before reaching Valdez. Valdez itself is spectacular.
We are staying at Bear Paw Campground. Despite being a gravel-covers lot, it is a very nice little park.
