Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Day 10 - Skagway, AK to beaver Creek, Yukon, Canada



Minnesota group tightens my steering bolt. It was finger tight! Scary!


Awesome gravel roads!














White Pass, litterally!



Jolie and her friend


Jolie is extreme!

Jolie at Breakfast pondering the world's problems. She settled for a soda, EH!


Day 10 (sorry it is late)

Day 10
We got up and walked around Skagway- it was so cold that we both bought hats and I got a scarf too- then we headed out for Tok. Again the fog was crazy thick. I had to drive about 25mph for about 30 miles.
Wedidn’t quiet make it to Tok, and stopped in Beaver Creek. The drive great EXCEPT for about thre last 100 miles. This is the patch of raod that all the stories are about. Imagine 100 miles of roller coaster. I thought I lost thetruck a time or two in a pot hole and was just shy of throwing up for about an hour. WOW. What an experience.
-Jolie

Day 9 (sorry it is late)- Toad RIver, Yukon to Skagway, AK, USA























Day 9
The day started off very beautiful- like all of our days. We covered a lot of ground and made it to our destination- Skagway, ALASKA!!! The drive wasn’t bad and we say several bears, a few buffalo, and a handful of mountain goats.
The most interesting part of the day was driving over White Pass into Skagway. I think it was the prettiest yet. Then it got cold and I thought it was raining, but it was really just extremely thick, very eerie fog. The fog was so thick that I missed the welcome sign ( that sits about 15 ft. off the road) and lost sam- he was at the sign waiting for me and taking pictures for some other travelers.
When we got to the border, I was so excited and said something to the border guy about driving through the clouds and I must have been grinning from ear to ear because he looked at me like I was about 5 years old and said “did you like that?”
Yeeh, Skagway! I’m excited to see all the places that sam has talked about over the years!!
-Jolie


Made it to the southern part of AK. Feel good, cold and more cold.
Peace
Sam