We finally made it to Alaska! We literally had to drive through fire to get here! It was so smoky that we could not see the beautiful mountains that surrounded us, but we will need to go back this way so maybe then we can see them. One of the firefighters told us that their were 57 fires in the Yukon and also fires burning in Alaska…so typical Metzler vacation. We also learned that Tok Alaska was originally called Tokyo because the AlCan was built during WW2 to take troops to protect “Alaska( which wasn’t a state yet) and Canada” from Japan . But because of the anti Japanese sentiment they shorten it to Tok. So here are some pictures. The trip took over 8 hours to go a little under 400 miles with our average speed being about 40MPH
Travels with Beau and Bailey 