North to Alaska, Yukon and Northwest Territories: July 2011

Friday, July 29, 2011

THE ADVENTURE COMES TO AN END

The trip has been fabulous; we have enjoyed seeing breathtaking vistas, an impressive amount of wildlife, met wonderful people.

On our last evening we recounted some of the wonderful experiences we had. I asked Henry what was his most memorable moment, he said there were many but what stands out in his mind is to see the Arctic.

Henry at Arctic Ocean

For me it is the flight around mount McKinley and landing on the glacier.

We both agreed that our favourite campsite was Boya Lake Provincal Park.

The north will always be in our hearts, it is just that kind of place you can never forget, the land of the midnight sun will call us back someday, for there is so much more to see.

Home Sweet Home

We are fortunate that the RV market is adapting to our future needs so we will be able to travel for many years to come.

IT’S A SMALL, SMALL WORLD, AFTERALL

We have travelled over 16,000 kilometres. The amount of people we have run into more then once is amazing. Like one person said to us. The Yukon is a small village of 34,000 people.

For those of you who are very faithful readers of the blog, might remember my mentioning a young man we met in Takhinni Hot Springs, who was from a large family in a German-Russian community in Northern B.C. Well our third breakdown was in this northern BC, the tow truck driver was from the same German-Russian community.

Driving the Alaska Hwy, we stop at a beautiful look out over Muncho Lake. There is a couple there who asks us to take their picture. Well it turned out they were from Faro, where we had broken down the second time. They saw us and knew the whole storyof us driving to Whitehorse for the part.

We were sitting in Denali National Park, when a couple from Florida comes to our campsite. They had recognized us from Boya Lake campsite in BC, where they were camped beside us.

Andreas, the man walking and pulling the cart on the Dempster; we ran
into him in front of the Whitehorse info centre. He had arrived safely in Inuvik on his 30^th day of walking. He had flown down to Whitehorse the day before. His legs were feeling better, not great, but manageable. He told us that Peer had also made it.

The couple from Colorado, with whom we did the flight to Tuk, we ran into them again in Dawson City.

In Takhinni Hot Springs we spoke with a couple from Switzerland. When we parked our trailer in Anchorage, this same couple wasin the campsite next to us. We spent the evening together, drinking wine and sharing stories.

About 20 years ago we used to know this couple from Trout Creek Linda and Scott, we had lost touch with them. We found themrunning a huge business on the Alaska Highway.