The northern rockies are very similar to their southern cousins, they have impressive mountains, dense forests and idyllic lakes. Ok so their not quite as dramatic as Banff and Jaspers scenery but what’s great about the north is it doesn’t have the tourists. It’s delightful! In fact we haven’t seen any tour buses the past…
Muncho Lake, Canyons and Wild Bison
Call it fate or whatever you like, but yesterday if we hadn’t turned around to check out the log that looked like a dead bear we wouldn’t of had the crazy close encounter with the bear family from the ‘relative’ safety of our van. Today it happened again. We were looking for a hike but…
The Serengeti of the north
Finally we arrived in Bison country! The Alcan highway between Coal River and Muncho Lake is home to a herd of wild bison who are a threatened species in Canada. They are regularly seen along the highway and our friends visited a month ago and joked that it was like a safari drive as they…
Friendly locals and the ups and downs of van life
There was a horrible noise coming from Daphne as we left Skagway and we had no idea what was causing it. The town ‘mechanic’ was just a man that worked out of his garage and charged us $25 for a five minute diagnosis. He said we should make it back to Whitehorse OK so we…
Skagway’s eventful Independence Day
Skagway goes all out for Independence Day and this year it was in celebration of the national parks 100th anniversary. A float passed us with 6 women dressed in pageant theme but each one representing an American national park, from a cowgirl Grand Canyon to a silver Glacier. The town was bustling and had a…
Border crossing birthdays and gold rush highways
It was my 27th birthday and another new country to celebrate it in. So far I’ve had my birthday on an island in Thailand, in Toronto where Craig made me a cake and dropped it face down on the floor as he presented it to me, a cancelled flight due to the volcano smoke meant…
Roadtripping past stunning lakes, deserts and Bears
It was sunny everyday while we were stuck in Whitehorse but the day we left the heavens opened and it poured with rain. God damn! We were happy to be back on the road though and detoured south on the Klondike Highway to explore a little of south eastern Alaska. The storm passed and did…
Whitehorse the Wilderness City
Normally when we get to a city we head straight to a supermarket, stock up on food and gas, email the family and hit the road. But Whitehorse was different. We were waiting for our replacement windshield which ended up taking a couple extra days to arrive so we had no choice but to explore…
Kluane National Park, Canada
‘Hello, Bonjour, welcome to Canada’….we forgot how French Canada was but were quickly reminded with the road signs. Miles changed to kilometres and head lights were to be used at all times. The buzzer to notify us that our lights are on doesn’t actually work so we’ve already had one morning waking up to a…
Disaster in no-man’s-land
We are slowly grasping how wild Alaska is after nearly two months here. A 100-200 mile drive along a main highway might not pass a single village, let alone a roadside letterbox. Every viewpoint we get to amazes us, how can one state be so wild, remote and undeveloped. There’s nothing but trees, mountains, rivers,…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 