14 years ago I was in Alaska for the first time. Yes, it was on my ‘someday’ list of places that I really never considered possible. I did some incredible things on that brief visit. I saw the bears salmon fishing in the falls at Brooks Camp, but in the few days we allotted for travel to Denali National Park the weather was our enemy and we never got there, let alone saw the mountain! Since then I’ve always prefaced the thought of a return visit with the sentence ‘I’d like to spend an entire summer there next time!’

“The summer of 2013 became ‘Our Alaskan Adventure.’ For over a month we were on the road. Starting out from Las Vegas, NV, to Glacier National Park. We covered Banff and Jasper, two beautiful units of the Parks Canada system. Across beautiful British Columbia and the Yukon we did sightseeing in Dawson Creek and Whitehorse. We rode the world-famous White Pass and Yukon railroad to Skagway AK and braved the highways north that become worse the further we went. If you think the Mississippi is a big river you need to experience the Yukon River! In the end we covered over 8,500 miles of road even though we took the Alaska state ferry system from Haines, AK, though the inside passage all the way back to Washington state!

Image ……. Denali Daylight. It’s now officially Mt. Denali.