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After packing up camp we were on the road to Tangle Lakes. In Alaska they have a book called The Milepost so you can look at landmarks along the road. It makes the drive really interesting. We saw some more beautiful scenery and a moose swimming across a lake with it's calf! We also saw more ...

... a normal one. We visited the North Pole shop, bought souvenirs, took pictures, just what normal tourists would do. We decided to stay at copper center lodge, the only lodging place in town, well, not actually a town, only a few houses, no more than twenty in sight. The room is small since the lodge is old. <br>

May 28 - We arrived in Tok today. And at last we have cell phone coverage again. It is amazing how attached I have become to all the modern contraptions. We are staying the Sourdough Campground with WIFI, hot showers, electricity, cell phone signal. We are civilized again for the night. Tomorrow we are going to find a forest campground or somewhere primitive and just stay for a couple of days and do nothing. We went to ...

... than that around Fairbanks, which is fairly flat and featureless. It&#8217;s almost literally the polar opposite of Arizona, with the outback loop back up to Fairbanks passing through Paxson instead of Arizona&#8217;s Payson on the way to Flagstaff. I spend the night in Delta junction, which I guess would correspond to Winslow in the Arizona analogy.

Ok so Aloha isn't the official greeting from Alaska, but its time for another update. I left my parents house in Traverse City MI on 06/23 and headed to Michigan's Upper Penisula going across the Maciknaw Bridge. I spent one night in the UP (Upper Penisula) at Porcupine Mountain State Park. I chose this park because this is one of the campgrounds that my family stayed at when I was very young (5-7). The park is on the Lake Superior ...

The pictures tell the story, well, not the whole story. The drive from Haines to Tok put us on the first section of the ALCAN that we'd seen and let me tell you, permafrost can be hell on a road. We literally bounced along like some kind of 70 mile an hour drive-it-yourself roller coaster. It's a ride, let me tell you. But to get to the ALCAN, you have to cross the Chilkat pass which tops out around 3600 feet and ...

The day after flying around Denali we drove up to Denali National Park. You can only take vehicles a few miles into the park, after that you have to use their bus system. This is great because it cuts down on tourists stopping their cars in the middle of the road to get photos of rabbits and moose and the occational bear. So we took the bus in about 12 miles and did a short hike. The mountain isn't nearly as impressive when viewed from this part of the ...

We came through the Northermost US entry point on the top of the world highway. It`s a collection of 3 buildings in the middle of the nowhere, near the top of a mountain. One builing is the border control and 2 are cabins. The top of the world highway was a beautiful ride, you essentialy drive along the ridgeline of the mountains. As soon as we reached the border it started hailing and pouring rain ...

July 2, 2005 - On the Road to Fairbanks After a good overnight in Tok it was back on the Alaska Highway toward Fairbanks. About 100 miles down the road the Alaska Highway ended at Delta Junction! What? I thought it went to Fairbanks! Well, we stopped at the Delta Junction Visitor's Center and we learned that indeed the Alaska Highway ends there (after 1420 miles) and we should continue on to Fairbanks on the Ric******* Highway - which we did. The day ...