Our life on the road

Welcome to post 13 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip. In a half-awake state we both crawled out of the truck bed with full bladders and were met with a scene so perfectly picturesque that we may as well have been dreaming.  The stillness of the lake allowed for a flawless mirror reflection of the mountains and pines. ...

Welcome to post 12 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip! Slana, Alaska to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve // For the last few days there had been an offer on the table and this morning Mark & I officially accepted.  When Cade & Becca initially invited us to help them move to Alaska, Cade thought...

Welcome to post 11 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip! The Yukon Territory to Slana, Alaska // We woke to another chilly, overcast morning and didn’t waste any time cooking, cleaning, and packing up.  While preparing breakfast our camp neighbor, a man who appeared to be in his 70s, struck up a brief conversation with...

Welcome to post 10 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip! Tagish, Yukon to somewhere along the Takhini River One question hung in the air this morning.  Would the weather conditions permit us to go paragliding?  Mark and I had never been and Becca was ready to take us on a tandem flight if the stars aligned.  Between the...

Welcome to post 9 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip! The Cassiar Highway to Tagish, Yukon We were met by only a few broken clouds this morning, the glorious warmth of the sun able to greet us for breakfast.  Rainfall overnight had me picturing us packing up in a wet, scurried frenzy so I was as delighted as ever to...

Welcome to post 8 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip! Hazelton, BC to somewhere on the Cassiar highway From our camp in Hazelton, Canada’s highway 16 took us to highway 37, the narrow and winding road that would eventually take us to the Yukon Territory.  Upon joining 37 (also known as the Cassiar highway), a sign...

Welcome to post 7 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip. McBride, BC to Hazelton, BC For whatever reason this was the first campsite of the trip where the presence of bears felt likely.  We were parked at a dirt pullout in a dense forest with a logging road on one side and a loud, rushing river on the other.  When I got...

Welcome to post 6 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip. Golden, BC to McBride, BC We both enjoyed a hard night’s sleep despite the below freezing temps, the camper shell holding in more warmth than we would have guessed.  We layered back up and stepped outside to see that the Purcell mountains to the west were...

Welcome to post 5 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip. Skookumchuck, BC to Golden, BC At 6:30 am we emerged from our sleeping bags and slid ourselves out of our cave.  It was somewhere around 35 degrees outside and I was surprisingly not miserable.  I had feared that living without a furnace would make for rather...

Welcome to post 4 of 18 in our Driving to Alaska series. We hope you enjoy the stories from this unforgettable 4,000 mile road trip. Riggins, Idaho –> Skookumchuck, British Columbia The day began with a walk down the road to use the restroom at the nearby campground; my morning view that of the rugged canyon carved by the mighty Salmon river just as the first rays of sunshine kissed the...