Tag: fall road trip
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Steinbach, MB to Wakefield, MI
Day Seven: We have driven 3300 miles from Healy, Alaska and have 1100 miles remaining. We are ready to be home! We left Canada this morning, happy to be back to miles per hour, which we can clearly see on the speedometer. Neither of us can reasonably read the kilometers per hour markings on the…
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Lanigan, SK to Steinbach, MB (plus piece of Alaska)
Day Six: we have now traveled 2800 miles from Healy, Alaska and have 1600 to go. We will cross into the United States tomorrow at the Warroad, Minnesota border crossing. Our fun stop for the day was Portage Spillway Provincal Park, which surprised us by having thousands of birds. We saw a White Pelican, a…
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Fort Nelson, BC to Lanigan, SK – Halfway!
Days 4 and 5 brought us to 2300 miles completed with 2100 miles remaining. We saw 2 bison, 1 coyote, and lots of elk and deer. Over the past two days the terrain has changed from hilly forests to farmed plains. The photo below catches some of each during the transition zone. Fall colors are…
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Watson Lake, YT to Fort Nelson, BC
Day Three, we have driven 1300 miles so far and have 3100 left. Today was the Northern Rockies, which is our favorite section of the 4400 mile drive. I finally saw the caribou calves I was looking for all summer. We watched 6 caribou near Summit Lake for at least 10 minutes. We had 2…
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Destruction Bay to Watson Lake, YT
At the end of Day Two, we have driven almost 1000 miles with 3400 to go. This morning, I went for a short walk from our motel to the shores of Kluane Lake. On the other side of the windswept lake, I could see glistening gold patches of trees, plus peaks with new snow. It…
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Healy, AK to Destruction Bay, YT
Day One of our 4400 mile trip to VA. We started the day seeing a wolf and ended the drive seeing a grizzly bear. In between, there were many pretty snow-capped mountains with fresh snow. It was snowing as we packed yesterday, then turned to rain, then dropped to 21 degrees overnight. Two of the…
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Day 18, Home!
Today we drove from Bradford, PA to Luray, VA, arriving home at 4:30. In 15 days of driving we travelled 5,150 miles from Healy, Alaska (18 days total as we took 3 days off along the way). It is splendid to be home with running water, comfy furniture, and 2 laying hens! Our house sitters…
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Day 17, Niagara Falls
Today we crossed the US/Canada border four times (2 crossings were unplanned as C left his phone at his nephew’s as we discovered just 15 miles down the road). We drove from Port Huron, MI to Bradford, PA adding about 2 hours to see Niagara Falls. We arrived at Niagara Falls, Ontario at nearly 6…
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Day 16 Grayling to Port Huron, MI
Yesterday we drove half the day, then spent the remainder visiting C’s nephew and family on the thumb of Michigan. We greatly enjoyed our visit. We also got a good look at Lake Huron and at the river route between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
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Day 15, Three Lakes to Grayling, MI
Loads of excellent scenery today, but no wildlife. Fall colors were excellent for many miles in upper Michigan and finally included some excellent reds, along with orange, yellow and green. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior was gorgeous. Lake Michigan was beautiful as well. We were pleasantly surprised that scenic Highway 2 had sand…
Me & C 