Rosie and The Operator are off to visit a small chunk of Canada and Alaska for a month. Well, its quite a big chunk actually as Rosie found out when dropping her pins on the map for the places she would like to visit.
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Rosie and The Operator have got a cracker of a holiday planned flying and boating through Alaska and Driving around The Yukon, Canada for the next 23 days.
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Vancouver is an amazing, modern, young and vibrant city. It is a city that is easily walk able and, coupled with the friendly, efficient ferry system around the harbor we enjoyably covered a lot of ground sightseeing.
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Stanley Park is the gleaming jewel in Vancouver cities crown and the number one place to visit in the city where outdoor activity reigns supreme. Rosie and The Operator are gong to cycle the 12km bike path and walkway that winds around the edge of Stanley Park following the seawall.
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Rosie and The Operator had a great time in small, beautiful Ketchikan. It is a great town to wander around and check out the history, experience nature at its finest, get a really good meal, (of which Rosie can say we certainly ate our fare share of salmon, halibut, cod & chowder) shop if you are so inclined or, just relax…..
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Rosie and The Operator boarded the Alaskan Marine Highway Ferry in Ketchikan at mid day and are travelling over the next 18 hours on this public transport ferry to disembark in Juneau at 0600 in the morning. Our journey has us travelling 478 kilometers along the cruise ship highway through the famous Inside Passage of the Bay of Alaska.
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Rosie and The Operator are in Juneau Alaska, the state with more wildlife than people, more miles of trails than roads and more glaciers than you can ever see in a lifetime.
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Rosie and The Operator have hired a car in Juneau. Believe it or not, there are so many cars here for such a small road network that stretches a grand total of 67km in a straight line from one end of Juneau to the other.
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Rosie and The Operator have an early start today, our aim is to get out to the Mendenhall Glacier bright and early, walk the tracks, get the snaps, avoid the crowds and bask in the silence.
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Rounding the corner of the elbow in Tracey Arm, there she was, the South Sawyer Glacier in a big ta da revealing moment, stretched out in front of us. The sea water was starting to turn into an icy sludge with large and small pieces of fallen glacial ice bobbing around on the surface.
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Rosie and The Operator have booked a three hour excursion on a float plane which will fly us across the mighty Juneau Icefield on a scenic flight that will land on the river in front of the Historic Taku Lodge which sits facing the magnificent Taku Glacier.
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Sam is our pilot and he tells us that ‘today is a perfect day for flying and we are in for a treat as the flight from Juneau to Whitehorse is very beautiful from the air.
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We are driving 533km on the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse to Dawson City. We will be travelling the overland route of the original gold rush stampeders, crisscrossing the mighty Yukon River as we go and experiencing this beautiful empty wilderness which is The Yukon province firsthand.
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Welcome to Dawson City, Home of the Gold Rush and the most Northerly Town we visit on our Yukon road trip!
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Rosie and The Operator are visiting Dawson City, Home of the legendary Gold Rush of 1898 and are going to introduce you to all things Sour today, including the Toe, Dough plus a trip to a couple of cemeteries.
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The Klondike Goldfields, yes, Rosie and The Operator are off to explore the valley and creeks that Dawson City is famous for when, back in 1896 a chance discovery of gold in Rabbit Creek, later to be renamed Bonanza Creek, led to one of the biggest gold rushes in North American history.
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Rosie and The Operator travel 446km from Dawson, along the Top of The World Highway to the Tetlin Junction where we then exchange onto The Alaska Highway for an overnight stop in Beaver Creek.
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We are driving The Alaska Highway direct from Beaver Creek to Whitehorse, a total distance of 450km which we should cover a lot quicker than yesterdays journey. Its the last leg of our awesome 1600km journey around the Yukon and guess what? It snowed last night, what a trip it was!
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Rosie and The Operator have come full circle as we roll back into Whitehorse the Gateway to the Yukon, after having started and now finished our epic 1650km road trip here, in this beautiful town.
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Fall in Whistler, Canada, is this the wrong time to be visiting this world renowned Ski Resort Rosie asked herself as she settled in for a month on her own?
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