Like they say, all good things come to an end. This is going to be our last post and soon it is life back to normal. The experience has been very rewarding and as such we started brainstorming about our next roadtrip, "Circling Mexico" :-)The alaska highway is a stretch of 1500+ miles through alaskan and canadian wilderness. The highway was build in ww2 to provide road access to alaska. It was build in a period of 8 months. Many of the original stretches of the highway are still preserved. Today the highway is paved, at least for the parts that do not have construction (which totals easily 50-100 miles). We drove the whole stretch north to south. The alaska highway takes you through beautifull wilderness areas and gives you a unique sense of remoteness. Services are few and far between. The road is generally in a good condition. On our way up, we had driven a part of the alaska highway already. This appeared to be by far the worst part.
It took us two weeks to complete the 1500 miles. This allowed us to have some fun rather than driving every day , mainly to keep the kids under control :-)
We camped along the highway, at lakes, rivers with no-one around, really no-one around but the local wildlife. We managed to keep away from surprise encounters with the local habitat. We heard the wildlife though, especially at night, the coyotes and wolfes did their thing...
After the alaska highway, we visited Jasper NP in canada. It is so crowded there that it felt like Yellowstone or Yosemite on the 4th of July. The wildlife is so used to people that they invade your private space. We had a big elk at our campsite eating the grass from under our feets. This is not a joke. The crowds set aside, Jasper is a beautifull park.
To view some pictures of the alaska highway, take a look at these.
Take care...
