Roll Call Alaska 2016

sue.t wrote:

Smitty77 wrote:
May you all have a great trip, and may the 'smooth roads North of Whitehouse' (NOT!) treat you all well. (Suspect Sue T is out with a shovel smoothing out the frost heaves for you now:)!)

Nada! Been busy clearing slush from our driveway. It has been a mild winter and above freezing the past week. Yesterday and today our packed-snow driveway turned to slush. First mosquitoes have already showed up, along with black flies.

And the frost heaves on the highway are already bad. The dipsey doodles are worse than usual on the 35 miles between our place and Whitehorse. My little Honda Fit doesn't mind them too much but the F-250 4x4 gets tossed around quite a bit. There's one diagonal dip that grabs the truck and redirects it. Nasty.

When we head out with the fifth wheel, we'll be going only 30-40 mph, and down to 10 mph for some of those dips.

Black flies, skeeters, frost heaves and slush - puts a grin on my face. You be a smooth ambassador of the North:)!

Sue sure makes it sound like the start of a great season:)!

Best,
Smitty

(And gang. Sue may not remember this, but I lost a windshield in my CRV while staying in Whitehorse (A temporary WiFi pole got 'bumped' and ended up on our front windshield. Sue was very nice at providing advice. Our timing was off heading both North and South, and we missed getting to meet her both ways... We'll have to correct that when we head that way again. Still hoping for 2017, but more likely 2018!)