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Continuing Southward Through Northern California

The drive to Napa, CA (population 77,492), traversed the fertile Sacramento Valley. The flat farmland and grass-covered rolling hills couldn’t compete with the majestic scenery we’d seen all summer; however, it did have a certain attraction and clearly made a significant contribution to our country’s food production. Our campground was east of downtown among the…

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Haines, Alaska

The Tlingit First People called Haines Deishu, which appropriately translated to “end of the trail.” The city was a quaint tourist and fishing village sitting on the Chilkoot Inlet amidst an area, which had a lot to offer visitors. The day we arrived, the weather was wet and cloudy; but over the following days, the…

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Day Trip to the Arctic Ocean

NOTE: Before reading this blog, I highly recommend you first read The Dempster Highway Experience by MFI published September 1, 2024. Her blog helps put this one in proper perspective. After 5 decades of consideration, construction of the all-weather road between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk (population 900 and hereafter referred to as Tuk) was started in…

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Land of the Midnight Sun

The Inuvik coordinates were 68°21’39″N and 133°43’47″W, which placed it 124 miles north of the Arctic Circle. I referenced this to make a comparison with my assignment at Thule Air Base, Greenland from Dec 17, 1976 to Dec 17, 1977. For accuracy, Thule was renamed Pituffik Space Base in 2023, since it had become a…

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Craziest Roadtrip Ever on the Dempster Highway – Engineer Creek to Eagle Plains

NOTE: Before reading this blog, I highly recommend you first read The Dempster Highway Experience by MFI published September 1, 2024. Her blog helps put this one in proper perspective. Our next leg was 109 miles to Eagle Plains (population 8-9 depending) and a 1-night stay at “an oasis in the wilderness” according to The…

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Valdez

Our next stop was Valdez (population 3,985), and we drove there the same day we toured Matanuska Glacier. We followed the Glenn Highway (AK 1) until it intersected with the Richardson Highway (AK 4) just past Glennallen (population 439). While the scenery along AK 4 through the Tsina River valley was purported to be the…

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