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Travel Blogs from Tok, United States
We're Finally in Alaska!
... at the RV Village for years and puts on a really entertaining program with music, stories, some history, and a few good jokes (Tok rhymes with joke). During the program they serve ice cream and we certainly took advantage of that. By the time ...
Haines and Alcan Highways
We drove on the beautiful Haines Hwy to head north and after a long challenging drive on the Alcan ended at 63 degrees north latitude. The day light lasted 19.5 hours. It's strange coming into a campground with daylight at11 pm and you have to be ...
Tok, Alaska
Wow, my first night "camping" in the back seat of my truck. The cats were confused, but, we all snuggled together and watched a movie on the DVD ...
Day 15: "We're going to Alaska!"
... wiHteHorse (he stopped there the prior night as well, not getting to the border just yet). We talked about meeting up in Tok (first major town across the border) later on and went our separate ways, but not before taking pictures of the sparse drunken ...
Heading for Colorado
... there's a lot to see in the park and the weather was wonderful again today, something I've rarely seen up here, I decided to head for Tok and get an early start on my eight-day drive to Telluride, CO. Before I left town I headed back over to the quirky, ...
Day 15 Friday
... heavy rain with low visibility. So we decided to start making our way to Haines. We took the Glenn Highway from Wasilla up to Tok. It took us about 6 hours, and go figure, it was another beautiful road. I was snapping pictures like crazy. We came around ...
Day 50 Yukon - Alaska
Day 50 Yukon - Alaska Last night we met some Canadian RVer's on the sites behind us. Dean, Bobbie, Robert and Carol. They have done some extensive travelling both here and also overseas to NZ and Australia. This morning we packed up and rolled ...
Day 24 - Valdez -> 20 miles west of Tok
240 miles - 5 hours We leave Valdez at 3:20p after drying tents, laundry, bike wash and visiting a couple of museums - one focused exclusively on the earthquake that destroyed the town in 1964. We meet Brian's friend Laura for killer burgers then ...
Journey Into the Interior
... north) in a state park just outside the town of Tok. Apparently, the town was originally Tokyo Village but was shortened to Tok during WWII when fighting broke out in the Aleutians. Rain was threatening so we moved all our bags, tote boxes and ...
Recap
... car for a long ways. In the hot sun, it would have been torturous, but we Cordovans enjoyed working on our tans, :). Tok is a small town perfect for gasing up before crossing the border. There's a cool visitor's center on the edge of town and a ...
The Road from Tok
The Road from Tok Tok (rhymes with smoke) must have as many t-shirts with catchy slogans as Chicken does. Tok started out as an Alcan Highway construction base. It is short for Tokyo Camp but got shortened to Tok during WWII. It's the road from Tok that ...
Indecision is the key to Flexibility
... heater. It did get gown to 28 degrees but warmed up nicely as we departed. Day 17, Sunday, 26 Aug, Tok to Haines Junction, Yukon Territory This was a nice ride with good weather. I stopped to take a picture of ...
Top Of The World
... all the way. We cross over a pass and before us in the distance are the snow capped Alaskan Mountain chain. Beautiful. We arrive at Tok RV park and in the lobby is a man in an AUBURN shirt. Can you believe that Frank! He said he ...
The mouse ran up the clock...................
... of entry to Alaska. In January, 2009, the temperature was recorded to be -80 degrees Farenheit. Did an overnighter in Tok before pushing on to Valdez. Plenty of activities planned for tomorrow, so stay tuned and see you in Valdez. ...
Panning for our fortunes!
... ice cream looked delicious but didn't have time to taste it!!! We left the Gold Dredge to begin the long ride to Tok. At about 4 o'clock we stopped at Rika's Roadhouse for rhubarb pie and a reststop. The roadhouse is a great place with ...
Day 31
... is not much to talk about so I am just adding Day 31 to Day 30’s log. We are in a large campground in Tok (pronounced like poke). It fills up every afternoon as campers arrive, either coming into Alaska or preparing to depart Alaska. ...
Goodbye to Alaska
Well we are about to leave Alaska. Hopefully the weather will improve (we've had 28 out of 29 days with some sort of precipitation:)) Four weeks down and two more left to go. We now head down the Alaska-Canada Hwy. We have a couple of days of bumpy ...
Glennallen - Tok
Miles: 145 Weather: Cool, partly cloudy w/thundershowers The ride to Tok and Thompson's Eagle Claw was straight forward (no pun intended). We departed the (overpriced) Caribou Hotel in Glenallen at ~1130. The road was smooth and ...
June 1 Alaska Trip 2010
... pie from the rhubarb in Homer - yummy. We was a pair of swans in about every small lake. In several places out in the middle of nowhere there are public pay telephones. We used our 5 gal of fuel agian on the way to Tok from ...
Hello Alaska!
We headed northwest on Alcan Highway early. We had heard the road ahead was going to be rough and wanted to make sure we had plenty of time to make it to the border of the USA before too late. We actually only got 300 miles today, ...
We made it!
We're just stopping for lunch back in the good ole US of A to let you know we've made Alaska! You'll understand better when we post pictures what we mean when we say that the expanse of wilderness in Northern BC, Yukon, and the small sliver of ...
Hell Road - Haines Jct. to Tok AK
... It looks good. It will stay through the end of the trip. Happiness short lived. The road from the US border to Tok was a series of 'pavement breaks' (dirt and gravel). We couldn't get up past 50! By the time we got to ...
Day 1, Tok, Alaska
... as Alaska offers. We did see a moose with a baby and several rainbows. We ate in the Palmer McDonald's, and Fast Eddies in Tok for dinner. The Caribou cabins are wonderful. There are three single beds in a loft upstairs; for the kids, and full size bed ...
Day 30
... and it just wasn’t a good place to camp, not to mention the mosquitoes were terrible. So, we continued on to Tok, arriving about 5:30 Alaska Time. Their time is four hours earlier than Eastern Time. Today we saw the worst roads ...
Rough 191 mile ride today, BUT in ALASKA now!
... ; The soup of the day (and every day) is ......you guessed it - CHICKEN! Very, very windy on the road from Chicken to Tok, Alaska. I was pooped from the rough riding today. On to Anchorage tomorrow, to put the bikes in the shop for an oil ...
Back to Alaska
... signs to take a picture of - maybe we were just tired, but we all got a giggle out of it. We stopped in Tok for diesel and I couldn't resist taking a picture of the car wash. Warren told me later that the station will let you wash your rig ...
Frost Heaves & Undulatiosn
July 12, 2009 (Sunday) – Tok, Alaska (225 miles) Although we hated to leave such a wonderful spot, the desire to see the children was pushing us on. Our destination for the day was twenty miles from the Alaska-Canada border and in distance, a ...
Denali to Tok
... and required alot of conccentration. As such we only got to see the amazing surroundings when we stopped of when the gravel smoothed out long enough to glance around. Finally we made it back to Tok. We're headed out of Alaska to the ferry in ...
Last day in Alaska
We left beautiful Valdez and arrived at Tok this afternoon where we will camp for the night. The road to Valdez is absolutely beautiful. We enjoyed our travels today, with the exception of frost heaves from time to time. It is so difficult to get and ...