We crossed over at the most northerly border crossing, Poker Creek, population:2
After driving the Top of the World Highway. This was a beautiful drive, blue skies, mountains, amazing autumn colours... just WOW! We managed to find some tracks that went off into the mountains, we were consious of our time slipping away, but had to try a few:
We are currently at the Rivers Edge Camp ground in Fairbanks... after getting a little lost and ending up at the airport, whoops! I really must learn how to read a map one day ;-) And Jen deserves a medal for putting up with me telling her to "go the other way!"
So, tomorrow we are heading up the Dalton Highway with the hope of reaching the Arctic circle... Yes, we are slightly barmey as its been getting progressively colder over the past week or so as we've been heading north. Today we encountered a freak snow storm while travelling up the last bit of the Alaska Highway, and temps have already dropped down well below freezing at night time. But hey, never mind! We have heated seats for the day time and hotty bottles for the tent! It's only about 200 miles to the place we want to get to so with an early start we should be able to get back to Fairbanks and prepare ourselves for Denali :-) Denali looks like an interesting one, you have to enter a lottery a year before for a pass to take your vehicle in! However there are other options, the bikes, a bus ... and helicopters or aeroplanes ... mm, what's the exchange rate looking like at the moment?!
We'll end with the obligatory cheesy pic, Disco Rob is glad to be 'home':
1 comment:
Don't know about "glad to be "Home"" -poor Rob looks exhausted!
Who's on bike cleaning duty tonight then? :-) !!!
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