Aug 2, 2012 - Smith's Green Acres RV Park & Campground

Stayed at Smith's Green Acres RV Park & Campground in Delta Junction, AK for one night in a FHU site. Note 1: On Thurs., 08/02/12, while traveling from North Pole to Delta Junction, AK, we stopped by The Knotty Shop in Salcha, AK. We got some great pictures of the many different things made out of knotty pine lumber. Note 2: On Thurs., 08/02/12, we made a daytrip with our friends Ray & Linda Fowler to go see the Delta Junction Visitor Center, The Sullivan Roadhouse Historical Museum, and The Northern End of the Alaska Highway Mile Post 1422.

Jun 24, 2012 - A Day of Travel and Sightseeing

10 AM Sunny and 77 Degrees 4 PM Sunny and 81 Degrees Windy All Day Traveled From Quartz Lake to North Pole Alaska, 88 Miles, 5 ¾ Hours Stayed at Riverview RV Park It was another beautiful, warm sunny morning! We got our first pictures of the Alaska pipeline on the way out of the park, and then stopped for more pictures where the pipeline bridge goes over the Tanana River. It is an FBI secured site, with guard and all. He greeted us as we entered the parking lot, apparently just to make his presence known. Our next stop was Rika’s Roadhouse,...

Jun 22, 2012 - Day 29 - 30

June 21 & 22 - Sunny, beautiful blue skies-high of 80-sun did not set or rise!! Thurs. we did a lot of different things-railroad tour of mining/Gold Dredge 8/and we actually panned for gold (you bet!); spent quite a bit of time at the Museum of the North-a fantastic place-displays are incredible & DVD's that we saw were excellent on the history of Alaska, etc.; and we went to the ballgame that started at 10:30 p.m. and ended at 1:45 a.m. & the stadium lights were not used! This was on Aldie's "bucket-list" for this trip. The crowd was a bit...

Jun 15, 2012 - Delta Junction, AK

Smith's Green Acres RV park - the only one in town. It's a pleasant park - has elect and wifi, and nice grassy sites. Left Tok this AM in drizzle, but the further north we came, the better it looked. Sun was out for a couple hours this afternoon and was in the mid 60's. Delta Junction is the official end of the AK hwy, so we took the required picture. Not much else to do here. John went to Wells Fargo and had some financial stuff printed. We were at the Visitor's Center and there was a roadhouse next door, so we went in. Apparently there...

Jun 11, 2012 - Day 9

Day 9-June 1- temperature varied from 36-52 degrees This was a traveling day – 505 miles. We had rain, sunshine, clouds-a little bit of everything so was a good day for driving. We enjoyed the varied scenery – with always the snow-capped mtns in the background. Saw a couple moose & a black bear but also a beautiful trumpeter swan on Kluane Lake. The road from Haines Junction to the Alaska border was a bit rough at times – many orange flags telling us of bumps, etc. At Beaver Creek, Bev a warm piece of blueberry pie at Buckshot Betty’s &...

May 28, 2012 - Dawson City, YT to Delta Junction, Ak

Top of the World Hwy. from Dawson City, YT. to Chicken, Ak. The gravel road from Dawson City to the Alaska border was a nice graded gravel road. We had one detour. Yup, you are right, we detoured from a gravel road to a seconday gravel road. The detour road was 3 miles long with 1 1/2 miles down hill and 1 1/2 miles up hill. I took the down hill in first gear and the up hill in second gear. We then crossed the border into Alaska. The road then became bad and continued to get worse. Sarah Palin could have spent the "bidge to nowhere money"...

May 22, 2012 - Congdon Creek CG, YK to Quartz Lake State Park, Delta Junction, AK

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 Congdon Creek Government Campground, YK to Quartz Lake State Campground (north of Delta Junction, AK) 359.7 miles TRAVEL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.” – Richard Burton Woke up today with the alarm at 6:30 (you’d think I’d be getting used to early...

Oct 10, 2011 - 16th entry

Although we’re back in the lower 48, I just couldn’t resist sending these pictures. We had such a wonderful time in Alaska and I can understand why people go there on vacation and wind up not going home. The first picture is the last moon we saw in Alaska. The following pictures, I took advantage of the fact that John had to work for 3 days after I finished working and I went back to the Park to take these last photos. The picture of the train going over the bridge is a train that runs from Anchorage to Fairbanks and stops in Denali Park,...

Jul 28, 2011 - Delta Junction - 27 July

Yesterday (Wednesday) we traveled the last 109 miles of the Alaska (Alcan) Highway. When we came into Alaska about a month and a half ago, we took what is called the Tok Cutoff towards Anchorage rather than traveling up the final portion of the Alcan to Tok and eventually Fairbanks. Since we wanted to be able to say we traveled the ENTIRE Alcan, we had to go to Delta Junction. There's not a lot in Delta Junction. On the way into town, we had lunch at a little roadhouse. We visited a farmer's market and bought some bread, jelly, and...

Jul 4, 2011 - Tok, Alaska Parade & Delta Junction

2011-07-04 Tok, AK Parade, End of the Alaska Hwy We flew the coup out of Chicken this morning, 66 miles south on Hwy 5, most of it bad road. With all the rain we have been having it was hard to tell which of the potholes were the worst, so you just had to take it slow and easy when you couldn’t avoid putting the wheels in some of them. Sixty six miles back to the Alaska Hwy, also known as A2, then 12 miles west on it to the town of Tok, AK. We rolled in to Tok on the east end of town at 11:00 and were stopped by the congregation of several...

Jun 19, 2011 - Day 15 Happy Father's Day

We had our breakfast and enjoyed it as we did yesterday and got off by a little after 9. Today is a short day - destination Delta Junction, the end of the Alaska Highway. We arrived in no time, and went into town to get our pictures taken with the end of the highway marker.

Jul 30, 2010 - Delta Junction

We had to move the MH from Green Acres as he was overbooked and couldn't give us another night. He had an Airstream Caravan coming in we learned later. Moved down the road to the State Recreation Area. Dry camp for $10/ night. Went over to Jon D's home to see if he had a screw to replace one Ken lost while working on the MH tail light last evening. Jon had his water treatment unit about finished. The electrical all worked and it was ready for a water test. Had lunch with them. They were getting ready to take a weekend trip about 20 miles...