Return to Dawson City

From Chicken, we traveled the 'Top of the World Highway' to Dawson City, Yukon. It was another spectacular drive. The border crossing is at a particularly beautiful location, but, is only open for limited hours each day and for a very short season. Last year the crossing was closed in mid-September....

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Chicken Alaska

We saw this moose in downtown Chicken, Alaska. Chicken only has around seventeen year-round residents, so, moose probably outnumber the residents. With a name like Chicken, you just know this has to be a quirky place. It was another gold mining town, founded in the late 1800's and according to...

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Skagway/Haines Alaska

After leaving Atlin BC we detoured southwest along the highway loop leading through Skagway and Haines Alaska.This route was both a pleasant surprise and a big disappointment. The surprise was how beautiful the route was, possibly the best scenery of the entire trip so far. The disappointment was Skagway...

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Atlin BC

After leaving Whitehorse, we headed briefly south again, back into British Columbia, to visit the town of Atlin. It sounded like an interesting place, the most northwesterly town in BC, located on BC's largest, natural, freshwater lake, Atlin Lake, 145km long. Atlin was founded as a Gold Rush town in...

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Heading North Again

After being unable to get a ferry from Port Hardy to Bella Coola, as planned, we retraced our steps back to Nanaimo and back to the mainland, ending up right back at Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, where we'd left on our Vancouver Island tour over three weeks ago. It was the last week of May and time...

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North Vancouver Island

After our Barkley Sound cruise at Port Alberni we headed north to complete our tour of the Island. We stopped for a few days at Campbell River, the most northerly large town. It was a good place, large enough to have everything you could want, but, small enough to avoid traffic gridlock and high real...

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Barkley Sound - MV Frances Barkley

One of the special events we'd been looking forward to on this road trip was a voyage on the MV Frances Barkley from Port Alberni to Bamfield BC. She's shown below on arrival at the dock in Bamfield. A quick Wiki search yielded some fascinating info about Barkley Sound and Frances Barkley. Barkley...

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