Author Archives: Gunther

Caravan day 29 (Monday July 27) was devoted to the 230 mile transit from Anchorage AK to Homer AK. The transit was down the eastern edge of the Turnagain Arm which is part of the Cook Inlet (hey, I only … Continue reading →

Days 26 (Friday July 24), 27 (Saturday the 25th) and 28 (Sunday the 26th) were devoted to activities in and around Anchorage. Friday we took in BAT to get an oil, oil filter and fuel filter change. In addition we … Continue reading →

Days 24 and 25 (Wednesday and Thursday July 22/23) were pretty much devoted to transiting from Fairbanks down to Alaska with a stop overnight at Willow AK right near Talkeetna. Wednesday morning the weather was pretty clear albeit a bit … Continue reading →

Days 21 through 23 (Sunday July 19 to Tuesday July 21) were devoted to Denali National Park. Sunday we drove the 128 miles from Fairbanks to Denali Park AK which is just outside the entrance to the park. Denali National … Continue reading →

Day 19 (Friday July 17) was one of the days we were especially looking forward to…our visit to Gates of the Arctic National Park and Anaktuvuk Pass up at the north end of the Brooks Range of mountains here in … Continue reading →

Day 16 (Tuesday July 14) our scheduled activity for the day was a ride on the riverboat Discovery III…which Connie thought was cool and Neil thought was way, way over the top. It’s like Disneyworld of the North with the … Continue reading →

Days 13 through 15 (July 11-13) were strictly travel days…so not really that much to report although we did have a couple of scheduled activities. Day 13 we traveled from Destruction Bay YT to Beaver Creek YT about 30 miles … Continue reading →

Day 11 (Thursday July 9) was reserved for our all day boat, bus, and walking tour of Juneau, the capital of Alaska. We boarded our boat…the Fiordland…which is a 70 or so foot high speed catamaran excursion vessel and set … Continue reading →

Day 9 (Tuesday 7 Jul) of our caravan was our transit day from Whitehorse YT over to Haines AK…about 250 miles total but about 150 of those were south. We went west in YT until we got to Haines Junction…named … Continue reading →

Days 7 and 8 were spent in Whitehorse YT…with many preplanned activities for Sunday day 7 and a free day on Monday when we did laundry, got some groceries and ran errands. Sunday we got up, had coffee and breakfast … Continue reading →