TRIP DAY – 25
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DAILY
MILES - 390
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TOTAL
MILES – 4,392
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7/9 – We left Whitehorse
early and headed toward the Alaska border crossing on the first rainy day of
our trip. One after 24 sunny, beautiful
days can’t be complained about. The plan was to make the drive over two days as
the road was reported to be bad. It
wasn’t just bad it was TERRIBLE! Over
three hundred miles of the drive was frost heaves, pot holes and dirt-gravel
surface. We did well to average 40 miles
per hour. After driving a while we
decided to go all the way to the border and then on to Tok, AK as we didn’t
want to spend two days fighting the drive.
The RV which we had just washed a couple days earlier is now covered in
mud.
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| The Canada portion of the Alaska Highway - Whitehorse to the border. |
When we arrived at the border we had
driven over 4,300 miles since leaving home.
Somehow, it doesn’t seem that far when you are doing it a few hundred
miles at a time. Ninety miles from the
border crossing we arrived at Tok, the first town in Alaska. Here we are staying in the Sourdough
Campground which promises great sourdough pancakes for breakfast.
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We leave here today and head south
toward Valdez. More from down the road….
