Santa’s House

Haines to Fairbanks The road between Haines Junction and Port Alcan was probably the worst we have had on the whole trip. It’s the end of the Canadian section of the Alcan and I guess they just give up on it. It has a number of gravel sections with a couple of 15km stretches, lots […]

What country are we in?

Haines, AK Haines is actually in Alaska. We didn’t realise we would be crossing the border today, so we weren’t really prepared food wise. The officer at the border control gave us a bit of a hard time with questions like who owned our car, did we own property in South Dakota, did we pay […]

Whitehorse, YT Canada

Whitehorse is the largest city of the Yukon where three quarters of the population of the province (state) of the Yukon live, but it’s still just a small country town, with a population of 25,000. One of the first things we did when we arrived was find a car wash to clean the truck and […]

Hot Springs in the middle of nowhere

Liard Hot Springs, Summit Lake, BC Canada The girl at the information desk in Fort Nelson suggested that we stay at Summit Lake on Stone Mountain. We got a campsite with a million dollar view, right on the lake and it was stunning. Talking to a couple from Fort St John, they told us they […]

The Alcan – here we come!

Driving to Grande Cache the weather definitely improved. Sunny and low 20’s C. When we got to Grand Prairie it was 29C. The Australian sheepskin boots I got from Costco can go back into the cupboard for a while longer. We are back in shorts and t-shirts. We did our washing and stocked up on […]

The Top of the Rockies

Jasper, AB Canada Jasper is the most northern town of the Canadian Rockies. Our campground is in the forest and the nicest of all the campsites so far in Canada. As with the others, the fire permit is $8.70 per night and they supply the wood which is a bit green. Again our campsite doesn’t […]

The lakes of Canada

Lake Louise, AB Canada We took the alternative 1A highway, the Bow Valley Parkway to Lake Louise hoping to spot a bear or two, but all we saw were some mangy sheep. The campground at Lake Louise was full, so it was a good thing we booked. It is a much better layout than Tunnel […]

Starting our Canadian Rockies tour

Banff, AB Canada The campground in Banff is a strange set up. All the trailers and RV’s have to park on “a road”, it just feels bizarre. Power is provided, although our lead wasn’t long enough to park facing our grass and table, so we will need to get a 30-amp extension lead. We can […]

Crossing the border for the first time

We had read up on the Canadian Custom restrictions and talked to a number of people, but still didn’t know what to expect. We knew about the alcohol requirements but it hadn’t occurred to us that it had to be unopened. You wouldn’t dream of taking an open bottle on a plane, but camping is different! […]

Glacier National Park, WY

Glacier NP is stunning. We spent the first day driving around the park in our own car, travelling along the Going to the Sun road which had opened for the season only a week beforehand. They are upgrading the road, so our nice clean car of one day, was covered in mud. More annoying was […]