Matanuska Glacier 100 miles east of Anchorage
Matnauska Glacier
Matanuska Glacier
Fireweed at last
Typical scene along the highway
The faithful old Murano!!
Blooming on the drive home
The "good" part of the highway
Typical Alaska trees
More RV's than cars
Wrangell mountains
Wrangells
Tallest mountain in Canada
in the St Elias Range (19,000 ft)
Mountains to south of highway
The "bad" part of the highway
much construction
Much DUST!!
Glacial DUST
Ken and I are both allergic
and it caused serious problems
Typical scene
Northern Spruce Trees
and Big Mountains
BIG mountains
You get the picture
My grizzly bear!!
second one we've seen
Watson Lake, Yukon Territory
The Signpost Forest
Signs from all over the world
put up by anyone who wants to
More than 66,000 signs
put up since the first on
in 1942 during construction
Signpost Forest
Watson Lake, YT
Our motel in Watson Lake
Motel in Watson Lake
First Buffalo sighting
Big ole guy
Back on the road
It just goes on and on
And then the dust comes
We're feeling pretty bad by this time
Great to be out of the dirt again
Now this was a Buffalo sighting
Wild, just roaming the highway
Lots of babies
and also lots of BIG bulls
Nice family!!
Betty's bored ... she's shooting bridges
Lots of lakes and rivers and ponds and creeks
And Stone Sheep
They had babies too!!
They's scraggley, but fun
It is beautiful
Very Beautiful
Muncho Lake
Glacier Fed, so it has that green color
We had a picnic along the shore
More sheep
And more highway
Betty had a little lamb ...
They are adorable
with those big eyes!!
They can walk anywhere
Ken's CARIBOU
Finally!!
He waited the whole way
And this is the only one we saw!!
But there he is ... big as life!!
Oh NO! More construction
Black BEAR
Loved him. He never even turned to look at us
Just ate that new green foliage
Soooooo many flowers
Motel in Fort Nelson, YT
Not very good motel, but beautiful flowers
Betty's Lumberjack
I came up to his knee ... ALMOST
I liked him a lot
Guess what???
More construction
Dawson Creek
And more flowers
Canadian Motel, Grande Prairie, Alberta
They kept promising caribou
But we were not there at the right time.