Monday, August 14, 2023: Alaska for the last time! Info: To Stewart and Hyder there is a road of about 60 km which branches off the Cassier Highway (No. 37) to the west. Both towns are located on the Portland Canal, a fjord that extends more than 100 km inland and at the end of…
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Hello from Haines and Skagway
Saturday, August 12, 2023: How does the Klondike gold get into the rush? Info: With not quite 2,000 people, Haines is a small town north of Juneau, Alaska’s capital. It can be reached from Canada by road, otherwise by ship or plane. Skagway, along with Dyea, played a major role in the Klondike Gold Rush…
Hello from Whittier and Valdez
Sunday, August 6, 2023: From a haunted house to a glacier cemetery! Info: The town of Whittier can be reached in four ways: by train through a black tunnel, by car through the same tunnel (but at different times), on foot over the mountains, preferably from Portage, or by boat. Exactly in these ways you…
Hello from Homer on the Kenai Peninsula
Wednesday, August 2, 2023: Not Simpson, but Spit! Info: And also with the Odyssey this Homer has nothing to do, if one disregards the fact that it goes on from Homer only by ship (or airplane). “Where the land ends and the sea begins” is the motto of the small town with its 5,500 people….
Hello from Seward on the Kenai Peninsula
Friday, July 28, 2022: Glaciers, sea lions and whales! Info: Resurrection Bay is a fjord, that is, a narrow bay cut deep into the land by glaciers. The ecosystem of fjords is one of the richest on earth. They exist in only six areas on our planet. The prerequisite is that a glacier cuts a…
Hello from Anchorage and Turnagain Arm
Monday, July 24, 2023: Bright colors in the city, blue in the ice and gold in the creek! Info: Anchorage is Alaska’s largest city with nearly 300,000 people and about 100,000 more in the surrounding area – in total, more than half of Alaska’s population of 736,000. It is equidistant from Tokyo, New York City…
Sally tells the real truth 09: I want to get into the top closet!
Hello folks! Half time! Can you imagine that? It’s half time for us. In three months, Ursula will lock us back up in the dark top closet of Annie Way, and she’ll feel totally guilty about it, because we’ll be in dark custody for at least a month, probably longer. We will successfully convince her…
Hello from Denali National Park
Wednesday, July 19, 2023: A peak without a mountain! Info: Denali, which was called Mount McKinley for a while but legally got its name back from President Obama in 2015, is the highest mountain in North America at 6,190 meters. From the base to the summit, it’s 5,500 meters in altitude, making it the highest…
Hello from Top of the World Highway: Dawson (Yukon) – Fairbanks (Alaska)
Thursday, July 13 – Sunday, July 16, 2023: Countless mountains, 8000 rubber ducks and one old bus! Info: From Dawson City, the Top of the World Highway leads to the 1258 m high border crossing into Alaska and on until it joins the Taylor Highway just before the “town” of Jack Wade. From Tok we…
Hello from Klondike Highway: Whitehorse – Dawson City
Thursday, July 6, – Wednesday, July 12, 2023: Why make it simple when you can make it complicated? Info: From Watson Lake, the Alaska Highway took us another 400 km to Whitehorse. Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon Territory and has about 28,000 inhabitants. The urban area of 416 km2 is 2 km2 larger…