Hi Blogosphere friends! I am finally home after traveling about 12,000 miles. We got home just in time to prepare for Hurricane Dorian. Luckily it past us by and stayed on the East coast of Florida. We are, however, in hurricane season so who knows what the next couple of months will bring.
Wanted to talk a little bit about life on the road and traveling to Alaska. First of all, you really need to be compatible with the person or people you are traveling with because this trip is not for the faint of heart (ours lasted 90 days). It was just my husband and me and our two dogs(they were just the best travelers!), but we met many along the way that were in caravans or traveling with friends. I think it safer to have other traveling companions in case of break downs and make no mistake at one time or another something will happen to your rig! We were lucky in that the only real break down happened just outside Cheyenne and was able to find help right away. If you break down on the Al-Can you can be stranded miles away from the nearest help and the road isn’t patrolled regularly by law enforcement just too much road to cover and too little civilization. Your rig will take a beating as the road is a huge mess!!! Even the so-called paved road is full of potholes and frost heaves and your average speed is about 40MPH so very slow going many of the roads are gravel and sometimes they were better than the paved. Alaska really wasn’t much better. The really wonderful thing about the trip was that the other fellow travelers are a lot of fun to get to know as we come from all over the world with a common bond of adventure and to complain about our rigs:-). The isolation and the scenery were so spectacular that I had a hard time returning the lower 48 and all the big cities and traffic.
Although this is probably my last post on the Alaska trip I will keep the blog open so you can share and will from time to time add more pictures as I sort through the thousand or so I took along the way. If you like the page please “like it” then you will get notification of new posts.
Here in SW Florida, our season starts in November so it’s pretty crazy around the Metzler’s household, but I hope to post some pictures of Florida in the future as well as my Ikebana designs.
So enjoy the pictures!
This is what I saw on my return. Up north there really were no sunsets as the sun stayed up til midnight.
My babies are just hanging out! We were just a couple of days from home.
St Louis hated going through this city it is a mess!
Me and my bridges!
On our trip, we crossed the boarder six times. This was the last time.
The Canadian Rockies. Canada did not get the memo that it was summer I was frozen.
Fun Sign
The correct amount of traffic on a bridge…take that St Louis!
The road less traveled.
The Yukon River
Dave driving our rig onto the ferry. I drove the jeep. Very tight spaces.
Flyfishing just outside of Haines AK
Not my best picture but liked that he was just hanging out with us.
You can tell by the sign how smokey it was many wildfires in the Yukon and Alaska
I will end here as I am having some issues loading more pictures. So I guess there will be more blogging from our trip!
Travels with Beau and Bailey 