Travel update

[Soapweed]

My vote goes to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as the prettiest (and most recognizable) place in the world. The Teton Mountains as a backdrop just can't be beat.

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[Faster horses]

Thanks for the replies, everyone. We were going to go around by the 'Top of the world' highway on the first leg home, but the road is washed out because of so much rain. They were doing convoys twice a day, but it has been raining more, so they may close that road altogether.

Per, your route is what we were thinking of doing. I need to get a map out and take another look...but if we can catch you at Williams Lake, gcreek, we sure would do that. Maybe send me your phone number in a PM. And I didn't get your message about calling the fellow at Whitehorse until tonight. We were out of cell service and internet service til we arrived here at Glennallen today.

Yes, we stayed at Muncho Lake--Northern Rockies Lodge and I would not recommend anyone stay there. Hamburgers were $16.75, fuel was $1.51 liter with the room discount (we didn't buy any fuel ). The room was okay but very spendy as well. Last night we stayed at Cleft of the Rock B&B at Tok, Alaska and that was super nice and had a great breakfast.

Now we are at our destination. Went picking wild raspberries and had them for dessert with heavy cream. Supper was moose backstrap,
bowtie pasta with fresh basil and tossed salad with homemade bleu cheese dressing. It was delicious. We had never eaten moose, and to tell the truth, I'm not much on wild game. This was incredibly good. She cooked it on the grill outside...lip smacking good. They said it was a spike bull.

We are going to Valdez fishing one day and our friends are flying us into their other place tomorrow or the next day.

Hillsdown, what was so disappointing about losing the pictures was the fact that I was going to get it enlarged and framed. So maybe we can figure something out using one of your pictures. Thanks so much!

The road from above Haines Junction to the border was really rough.
It lasted for about 150 miles. I read where it is built on permafrost and they just can't maintain it. I was wanting to go home the other way, and see Dawson City, but as I mentioned, there is a good chance the road will be closed.

Have a good evening, everyone!

[gcreekrch]

I have a friend in Dawson City also.

A neighbor of ours goes up there gold mining in May and returns at freeze-up sometime in early October.

[Silver]

Sorry Soap

[per]

Holy smokes Faster. You didn't need to drive all the way up to the Yukon to find a $16 hamburger. I'm sure we could accomplish that in Calgary. Boy do you ever make good time traveling. Here's to a relaxing time in Alaska.

Silver, is that up near Chetwynd?

[Silver]

[hillsdown]

Faster I took some pictures of the house today ,so if you PM me your email address I will send them to you and you can see if there are any suitable for enlarging.

Have a great time in Alaska, your dinner sounds delicious .

[nonrancher]

FH, So glad to hear you're having a great time and seeing interesting places. Are you two going salmon fishing? We were in Alaska this Spring and missed the salmon running by 3 weeks- big disappointment since that was something we've never seen. Couldn't even see the fish ladders because they were closed for cleaning. Hioe tiy catcg kits

[Faster horses]

We did go salmon fishing Monday and Tuesday at Valdez and we caught silver salmon. Very interesting. They were jumping out of the water all over the place. I guess they were starting to spawn and they weren't hungry. We were told you have to make 'em mad and they get ont the defensive and go after the lure. We used a 'wiggle wart' thing and that is what we caught most of them with. It was pretty good sized and orange!

We went by boat to the Columbian Glacier too, yesterday morning, but we couldn't get in close because of all the ice in the ocean in that area. I t was truly beautiful tho. Soon as I get my camera charged back up, I will try and post pictures. Oh, and I ran the battery down before i was done taking pictures, but our friend took some with his cell phone. Me and cameras...I seem to do the dumbest things. The charger was back at Glennallen...

Our friend used a boat from his friend and it was really fast. I maybe didn't like that part so well...

We have been eating reindeer sausage and it's really good. I might try to find some to have shipped home before we leave. It would be fun to share with friends.

We didn't get back to the lodge at Glennallen til ten-thirty last night and that is an hour behind Pacific time so we were really ready to hit the sack.
All that fresh, cool air was wonderful.

[Big Muddy rancher]

Ya you can tell all the little kids that reindeer sausage was made out of Rudolph

[JDBalerman]

FH, sounds like you are having an amazing trip. Our paths almost crossed at BMR's place. When you come down highway 22 you go right past our place just before you get to Longview. Sure hope that you will stop in.
JDBalerman

[Faster horses]

Thank you very much for the invitation. Yes, I think we missed each other by a day at BMR's. I'll let you know when we head that way. It should be sometime next week.