The catch up of the Journey...

Here is the catch up of the journey:

Day 11, what a day, it started out great, went through , a town called Champagne, this was originally a campsite on the Dalton Trail to Dawson City, established by Jack Dalton in the late 1800's, a roadhouse and trading post were built at Champagne in 1902.

As we entered the Kluane Range, we saw Aishihik Lake. Haines Junction is coming up next as we travel North. Beautiful views to southwest of the snow covered Kluane Ranges as the Alaska Highway parallels the Kluane Ranges from Haines Junction to Koilden, presenting a nearly unbroken chain of mountains to 8000 feet interrupted by only a few large valleys cut by glacier-fed rivers and streams. West of the Kluane Ranges is the Duke Depression, a narrow trough separating the Kluane Range from the St. Elias Mountains. From there are mountains we can't see from the highway and those are Mount Logan , Canada's highest peak at 19545 ft Mt St Elias is 18008 feet and many more.

Ok, I said it started out great, as we were heading to Destruction Bay once we left Haines Junction and started up that long hill toward the Kluane Range, our radiator  hose came off spewing fluid all over the windows, and the truck just slowed down to a crawl, we pulled over in a small rest spot, not sure what to do, now knowing that the towns are very small and not much in them, Bob said that we need to try and coast back down as far as we could back towards town,(Haines Junction) we got as far as the next rest spot about 15 min from town, a couple came by that saw us at the 1^st stop and asked if they could help, Bob went into town with them. Almost an hour later he came back with a tow truck.

Thomas the tow truck driver, took a look at the hose and and pulled it off to see what was wrong, he found out that it wasn't on right and fixed it, but not before he had to go back into town to get 5 gal of water and all our water we had. So once we felt that we were ok, we started back up the mountain to Fairbanks. We stopped at Beaver Creek only 20 Min's to the border of the USA.

Day 12, We left Beaver Creek, Yukon and headed to Fairbanks, Alaska. Beaver Creek history: Was the site of the old Canadian Customs station, In 1942 Beaver Creek is one of 2 sites where Alaska Highway construction crew worked from opposite directions connecting the highway, thus making it possible for the 1^st time for vehicles to travel the entire length of the highway. We finally arrived at Fairbanks Alaska!

Beaver Creek sunset at 11:30pm

Tanana River

Day 13 thur 16^th day (JULY 25^th -29^th) We are in Fairbanks, and enjoying the weather as well as going on a riverboat tour, We also went to the North Pole! Yes, there is really a North Pole in Alaska. We even sat on Santa's lap. On Sat we are going to take a Kayak down the Chena River about 10 miles, I'm going to have my own Kayak to do this.(LOL) We will give more of what we did after the 29^th, til then.

Just crossed the boarder into USA

Bob is in the sleigh.

Who says you are never too old to sit on  Santa's lap

Chena River we will be Kayaking this.