June 2022

Alaska – Day Ten – Denali Wilderness Tundra Bus Tour, Alaska

Saturday, June 25, 2022 was an all-day adventure for us on the Denali Wilderness Tundra Bus Tour. When we started planning this trip to Alaska a year ago, two of the things we knew we wanted to do was to stay in or near the Denali National Park and to take the Denali Wilderness Tundra […]

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Alaska – Days Eight and Nine – Goodbye Fairbanks and Hello Denali National Park, Alaska

Thursday, June 23, 2022 was a day of small maintenance and housecleaning chores for us, but mostly relaxing watching the latest episode of Star Trek-Strange New Worlds and reading. We wanted to take Bella for a nice, long walk but the surrounding area wasn’t all that conducive to an enjoyable activity for her. It was

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Alaska – Day Seven – Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge in Fairbanks, Alaska

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 we took a guided trail hike at the Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge here in Fairbanks, right down the road from where we are staying at the Tanana Valley Campground. When we first arrived in Fairbanks and were on the way to the campground, we noticed a large field full of

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Alaska – Day Six – The Antler Academy in North Pole, Alaska

Right next door to The Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska is The Antler Academy (of Flying and Reindeer Games) but when we visited this past Saturday we found out that, unfortunately, they are not open on weekends (which I thought was rather strange, but it’s not my business) so we knew we had

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Alaska – Late Day Three, Four and Five- Fairbanks, Alaska

We left The Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska on Saturday afternoon, June 18, 2022 around 12:30pm, stopped for some lunch and then headed to Fairbanks, Alaska (about 15 miles away) where we would be camping out for 6 nights at the Tanana Valley Campground. Check-in time was 3pm, but we arrived around 1:45pm

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Alaska – Early Day Three- North Pole, Alaska

We left Delta Junction, Alaska on Saturday morning, June 18, 2022 for another short drive of 80 miles to North Pole, Alaska, the legendary home of Santa Claus! When we started planning this trip to Alaska last year, Cindy was SO excited to see that, on our way to Fairbanks, Alaska we would be driving

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Alaska – Day Two- Delta Junction, Alaska

We left Tok, Alaska on Friday morning, June 17, 2022 for a short drive of 107 miles to Delta Junction, Alaska, the terminus of the Alaska Highway, aka the Alaska-Canadian Highway or AlCan Highway, ending our drive from the Mile 0 Post a scenic 1,422 miles later. We toyed with the idea of driving further

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Jeff, Bella, and Cindy at the Canadian Border to Alaska.

Alaska – Day One- Tok, Alaska

We left the Kluane (pronounced “Quanay”) Museum of Natural History in Burwash Landing, YT around 8:45am Thursday morning. Our original plan was to drive to Beaver Creek, YT about 2 hours away and right on the Canadian side of the border before U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. We had heard on our various Facebook groups

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