Leaving Valdez we headed to Central, the home turf of the groom of the wedding we just attended. The small town of Central is, well, basically in central Alaska as a matter of fact. It’s about three hours North of Fairbanks on the Steese Highway (NOT to be confused with the Dalton Highway/Haul Road to [...]
Almost exactly a year after my first trip up the Alaskan Highway I was once again on the Alaskan Highway. Masochism? Self-hate? What were my motivations to make this ghastly-long drive basically twice in the same year? The big one this time was the wedding of two good friends from college. The Alaska-Bozeman connection was [...]
We decided not to take the Alcan home for two reasons: we wanted a change of pace, and we were told by the crazy parking lot attendant in McCarthy to visit the Alaskan town of Hyder to get “Hyderized”. He brought up getting “hyderized” with such excitement the moment we told we had driven up [...]
After Banff it was time to bear down and do some real driving. Alaska was days away still. So we did just that: drive. The first day (starting late after the climbing, around 5PM) we drove up past Edmonton to Grand Prairie, where we camped for a few hours before waking up early to make [...]
