Alaska Highway bucket list!


 If anyone likes to drive and likes beautiful scenery then the Alaska Highway should be on your list. I've driven the north side of the Columbia River and Highway 1 from Oregon to LA. And the Alaska highway has both of them beat. British Columbia is absolutely amazing! The Northern Rockies are incredible. I'm not going to write a lot but post pictures and do my best to explain.


The drive started out a bit boring, then I drove through another snow storm for 2 hours. Almost a whiteout a few times. 
Hat's off to those Canadian truck drivers for dealing with this every day.


The Alaska Highway turned into a Canadian dirt road!


This is a metal grate bridge... I assume so they don't collect snow and ice. I've passed over a few of these.


Crazy roads!


I think this is a Caribou?


That's a bear! Watch out Sissy. I saw three today.


Huge mountain goat.

Are those buffalo? Yes I think they are! I ended up seeing hundreds of them grazing on the side of the road. I think we should take our fences down in the US. 


I even saw several buffalo calves.

Oh another bear!


Watson Lake has a huge area to nail up funny signs. I wish I would have known I would have brought something from St Thomas, Perkins, or left something from the ambulance. There were rows and rows of those poles. 

Sis and I have been doing great. Sis's asthma was acting up a little more in the mountains but have seemed to calm down as we head down.

I wish I had more time. Such an incredible drive. 

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