Chilkoot Trail Outpost Skagway
7 Mile Dyea Road Skagway, Alaska, 99840, United States
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Hitchhiking to Alaska
The mental preparation for beginning a planned hitchhiking adventure is a mixture of excitement and nervousness. Karen added to the nervousness aspects of the preparation by pointing out for weeks the downsides of hitchhiking. She refused to join me, which is fine but eventually I had to tell her to stop trying to persuade me to not hitchhike. I basically banned her from talking about anything she felt the word 'scary' was appropriate for when I was around. This ...
Gold Rush!
... Now that a year round road has been built, the railroad is used only for tourists. The cars are replicas of the original cars, and all the workers dress in late 19th century attire.
We headed down the mountain on the train. The weather remained decent, and we were able to enjoy the ride. We eventually reached an area where the railroad is perched on the mountain side. The views of the surrounding mountains and the huge valley were spectacular ...
More Rain, the Nine, and Spruce Tip Ale
... other interesting thing we noticed: The port in Skagway has an amazing rock wall alongside it, which over time has been painted with the names, and symbols, from the numerous ships that have passed through there, kind of like organized G-rated graffiti. Actually the photos don't really do it justice. We did spend some time wondering how some of those paintings got to the high crevices in the rocks where they appeared, ...
Her way in Skagway
... told to move to the ramp, nope, back up the ramp and turn around and back down the ramp onto the ferry. Our motor home was the last to load and (if you can picture this) parked diagonally at the door. One more coat of paint and we wouldn't have fit!
Secured Poots, vacated the motor home and went upstairs to a great breakfast and talk about how hairy this loading had been. Beautiful day to travel by ferry and only about an hour up the fjord from Haines to ...
Alaska Down South
I learned before in Alaska that the northern reaches were less spectacular than the southern, and the same holds true here. The drive from Whitehorse to Skagway starts off splendid and becomes spectacular approaching the US-Canadian border. The lakes there are a color that I've only seen previously in the Caribbean, due to the rocky bottom no doubt. The border crossing itself is about as exotic as anything I’ve seen this side ...
