Fires and pictures

Hi all,
Writing a blog on a phone is proving to be challenging. So I will keep this short. We spent two days at byers lake. We kayaked and fished.  No fish but we had fun. We spent one night as an RV park at Montana creek. There was a big fire in Willow which closed the Parks highway. The family running the RV park had to leave when they learned of a fire near their house. I later heardthat a helicopter and plane dropped water and put the small fire out. Unfortunately, Willows was declared a disaster area.

The highway reopened andwe  were able to drive to Wasilla to Beth and Mikes house and have dinner. Becky and Wayne came over to say hello as well.
So that is a quick synopsis of what's going on.  Below are some pictures from the trip.

Fishing and relaxing

hi all,

we made it to byers Lake, in Denali State Park yesterday. Must have put in the GPS coordinates wrong because we overshot by 20 miles and had to turn back. still that is not much of a setback.

took the time to figure out how to access the blog from my phone so will try to upload a couple of pictures.

below, is a picture of Alex and Evan at the ice Museum in Fairbanks.

Fairbanks had one of the best visitor centers I have ever seen. You have a nice museum with some great exhibits and the inside Plus the Park Service is located inside so you could ask questions. Below is a picture of Devon and Alex in front of the visitor center.

we are going to spend another two days here at Byers Lake. My sister Beth in Wasilla informed me that there is a 40 mile stretch of freeway closed between our location in Wasilla due to a wildfire.

since there is no other way around to Wasilla, we will have to wait for the road to open before we can get there. Darn another few days of having to fish and kayak in the lake. Pictures to follow.

Good travels,

Gordon

No pictures this time

Hi all,

We made it to Liard hot springs. this is a provincial park it is very nice we had a private campsite. The hot springs for awesome. The kids spent  all day playing in them. Lucy will post the pictures when she can. We are having trouble uploading pictures do to slow wifi at r_v parks.

we spent last night at the discovery yukon r_v park on the White River. it was army base number 3 when army was building the alcan during world war 2. It has some old world war 2 vehicles and a landing strip which is still used.

Crossed into Alaska this morning, June 12th. we had no problems but we did have to show leias rabies certificate. we drove to fairbanks. We will be spending two nights here.  We have around 2600 road miles on Gulliver. And are getting just over 6 mpg.gas prices in the yukon were very high. 1 dollar 29 and more per liter at some gas stations. For those interested, there are 3.79 liters per u.s. gallon.

Day after tomorrow, we will head to Denali  state park and stay for two days.

take care all, good travel,

Gordon

In the middle of.....

Hi all,

Well the crossing at Sumas was easy.  It must have been our honest faces! We drove to Hells gate. But the tram was $22 to ride per person. Being that it was only a 500 foot ride down we decided to skip it and save our Canadian money.

So we have been doing a lot driving. Last night we boondocked at a rest stop near Quesenol, called Hush Lake. Then we drove to Prince George to fuel up at Costco. IMPORTANT point here!  Canadian Costco's don't accept  American Express or Visa. Then we drove to Dawson Creek and are spending the night here tonight.  Tomorrow, drive 9 hours

Selfie

A picture of Lucy... or at least her hand!

Some confusion,  posted this under an old blog name.  Hopefully, it's gone now...but I thought it was gone before.

Good travels all

Gordon

RV Tour

Smokey Rest Stop Washington

June 6th, 2015 we started out again.  Just before leaving Gordon surprised me with a basket of Godiva chocolates to celebrate our 17 year anniversary (Gordon got his anniversary gift before we left)!

We filled our gas tank at Marysville Washington.

We stopped at Bellingham Washington where we exchanged US currency for Canadian currency.



Anniversary gift from Gordon at the Smokey Rest Stop Washington.  Look how big, green and clean the rest stop is.  Happy Anniversary!