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Re: ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log
After a restful night in the Historic Skagway Inn, a former brothel, we got an early start to board the car ferry to sail from Skagway to Haines, Alaska:
   Haines is a very small town, a little south of Skagway. We stopped for a fill up, since the next service was 180 miles away. The good news was that I was able to fill up with Premium for the first time in several days. The bad news was the price:  From Haines, we drove north up the Haines Highway to get back to the Alaska Highway. I am running out of ways to describe how beautiful the scenery is in Western British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska. The day started of cloudy but we got some sun as we got farther north.   Jim Last edited by QB93Z; 08-04-2012 at 01:53 AM. |
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Re: ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log
AWESOME!! Just AWESOME
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Re: ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log
Jim and Lyndi,
What a ride! I am totally in awe of your adventure.  Please keep the adrenalin rush going.  Be safe, Paul
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Re: ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log
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Snow!? Snow? It's August!? That stuff is left over from the winter, right? Oh, am I seeing things or do people look like they're wearing ski jackets?
I wouldn't know what to do if I wasn't cheek by jowl with other cars!  I'd have to tune in the traffic report and see what was wrong!  I'll say this, the scenery is way over the top. Absolutely magnificent!  Tom
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Re: ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log
Yes, the snow is left over from last winter. We are up pretty high in some parts of our trip. Also, the sun never gets very high in the sky at these latitudes, so there are many places that are always in the shade.
The weather has been nice for traveling, but it does get cool when there is cloud cover. Here is a bonus pic of a water fall we hiked out to:  Jim |
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Re: ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log
since you are posting as you go, how are you doing it? using a celullar wifi card?
just curious how cell service is ( or isn't)
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Re: ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log
Jim:
I can't say nothing more than THANK YOU! Safe travels to your destination, and return trip home. =D>
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Re: ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log
We are using Lyndi's Nikon D5100 SLR camera with the new Nikon 18-300 telephoto lens.
Each evening I transfer the photos from the SD card to a notebook computer. Then when I have WIFI at a motel, I select the post-worthy pics and upload them to Photobucket. Then I make my posts and link to the pics. It is a little cumbersome, but it has been working. Our cell phones are Verizon, and my research showed very little coverage in western Canada and Alaska. In Alaska, I might get coverage in Fairbanks and Anchorage, but we are enjoying being off the grid. I haven't even checked for coverage at all. There have been a couple of times that it would be nice to get data coverage for my tablet, but we did it the primitive way, we stopped and asked for directions. In most of the areas we have been driving there is no cell coverage of any kind. It is a long way between pockets of civilization. Before we left, I considered renting a satellite phone to carry in case of emergency on the road. But the most reasonable advice I got from seasoned travelers was that in these areas, other drivers would offer aid to a motorist in distress. We already have helped a family whose car was over heating and needed water. Jim Last edited by QB93Z; 08-04-2012 at 01:25 AM. |
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