https://www.micah.soy/tags/alaska-roadtrip/ Recent content in Alaska Roadtrip on Micah Henning Hugo en-us Mon, 24 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/the-day-of-surprises/ Mon, 24 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/the-day-of-surprises/ Extravagant Trek to Alaska and Thereabouts: Day 9 Link to heading I planned two surprises for Veronika for today. They didn’t have to be surprises, but I like surprising, and she gets appropriately worried about what I have planned (for good reason!), which is particularly entertaining to me. We left early in the morning and drove from Fairbanks south to Healy, which resides just north of world-famous Denali National Park. https://www.micah.soy/posts/weve-made-it-to-alaska/ Sun, 23 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/weve-made-it-to-alaska/ Extravagant Trek to Alaska and Thereabouts: Day 8 Link to heading As though I didn’t feel on top of the world already, having seen and done so many new and beautiful things on our roadtrip to Alaska, we were about to take the world- famous Top of the World Highway. From the campground on the other side of the Yukon River from Dawson City, we headed west on this poorly-maintained, mostly dirt road to the Yukon-Alaska border. https://www.micah.soy/posts/the-yukon/ Sat, 22 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/the-yukon/ Extravagant Trek to Alaska and Thereabouts: Day 7 Link to heading We awoke at the Watson Lake campground in Yukon, made breakfast, and enjoyed the natural beauty that surrounded us. There were a few very friendly birds joining us for some grub. They were picking up our food droppings quickly and opportunistically. So I wondered just how friendly they really were. I left the last nibble of my english muffin on my hand and stuck it straight out. https://www.micah.soy/posts/bears-hotsprings-and-the-yukon/ Fri, 21 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/bears-hotsprings-and-the-yukon/ Extravagant Trek to Alaska and Thereabouts: Day 6 Link to heading Franziskaner beat us to the road, even though we awoke early. We packed up and stopped at the Triple G Hideway campsite’s restaurant for breakfast. The restaurant has a very western, wilderness feel to it, and the food was pretty good. The seats at the bar were horse saddles on wooden stools, and there were taxidermy of local game that littered the walls. https://www.micah.soy/posts/the-alaskan-highway/ Thu, 20 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/the-alaskan-highway/ Extravagant Trek to Alaska and Thereabouts: Day 5 Link to heading Surprise! We survived black bear infested Pocahontas. Although, I think I could hear them walking around last night… I didn’t sleep all that well, and I clutched tightly onto my whistle the entire time. We keep a clean campsite. All of our food is stored in proper containers and left inside the car at night. We wash dishes immediately after every meal, and we don’t burn or bury food. https://www.micah.soy/posts/jasper/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/jasper/ Extravagant Trek to Alaska and Thereabouts: Day 4 Link to heading We awoke unscathed and groggy from our late night, washed ourselves with baby wipes since this campsite lacked showers, made breakfast, then departed toward Jasper National Park of Canada. On the way we stopped at Lake Louise, since it was “highly recommended” by every human imagineable. Well, everybody got the memo. There were more tourists here snapping photos of the lake than there are people tanning on Miami beach during Spring Break. https://www.micah.soy/posts/the-great-sandhills-alberta-and-banff-national-park/ Tue, 18 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/the-great-sandhills-alberta-and-banff-national-park/ Extravagant Trek to Alaska and Thereabouts: Day 3 Link to heading This morning we awoke early and made our way south to the Great Sandhills. What a bizarre sight! While much of the sand dunes (many of which were at least ten meters in height) were grass-stabilized, there were several very sandy regions that made me question whether I was truly in Canada. The photos we took could appear to be from the Sahara, at least as far as I would assume since I haven’t been there…yet. https://www.micah.soy/posts/saskatchewan/ Mon, 17 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/saskatchewan/ Extravagant Trek to Alaska and Thereabouts: Day 2 Link to heading We awoke in Riding Mountain National Park of Canada alive and unscathed by the 1000 bears that thrive in the park, (as we learned after we left.) We showered and got ready for the day in the park’s extraordinarily nice facilities. The bathrooms were heated and the showers were hot. Vee used the potatoes she made the night before and made a breakfast skillet for the both of us, which we washed down with some Earl Gray. https://www.micah.soy/posts/manitoba/ Sun, 16 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/manitoba/ Extravagant Trek to Alaska and Thereabouts: Day 1 Link to heading My girlfriend, Veronika, and I spent the night at my sister’s house in Wausau, WI yesterday, which was just a short, two-hour trek north of our home in Madison. We arrived later than expected because we didn’t anticipate how long being blessed for safe travels would take (her mother is just the wee bit nervous of our adventure.) Nevertheless, we made it and spent the rest of the evening listening to rap songs from the 90s and 2000s and watching the movie Hook.