Roll Call Alaska 2015
I know its early but we have been planning for the past 3 months. I know its another 15 months at least till we leave but we are just going crazy... So here is our very rough plan overview. Leave mid...
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"Another 50 years and all of us old timers who braved the original Alcan will be long gone and the story's of those days will be as irrelevant to travelers then as what it took to drive a team of mules dragging a Conestoga wagon up the Oregon trail is to us today"
There are some (more and more are passing by the day) that would say, with a fair amount of justification, that the "original Alcan" has long since disappeared...since the 50's anyway. One of the friends of the family worked on the construction of the Alcan and would recount tales of how it was a series of gravel stretches interrupted by corduroy road stretches interrupted by Cats stationed next to the mudholes.
...and as Sue T would correctly point out, the road has been the Alaska Highway since about that time period.
There are some (more and more are passing by the day) that would say, with a fair amount of justification, that the "original Alcan" has long since disappeared...since the 50's anyway. One of the friends of the family worked on the construction of the Alcan and would recount tales of how it was a series of gravel stretches interrupted by corduroy road stretches interrupted by Cats stationed next to the mudholes.
...and as Sue T would correctly point out, the road has been the Alaska Highway since about that time period.
