by Richard Quinn | May 11, 2023 | Alaska Highway, Road Trips, Travel
With just 32,000 residents, Fairbanks is a mid-sized town by most standards, but in sparsely inhabited Alaska, it’s the largest community in the interior of the state, its population second only to that of the much larger city of Anchorage. It was founded in 1901 as a...
by Richard Quinn | May 11, 2023 | Alaska Highway, Canadian Road Trips, Road Trips, Travel
Click Maps and Photos for an expanded view. After a restless night in my funky motel in Beaver Creek, Yukon, I was raring to get back on the road. Fairbanks was only 300 miles away. Delta Junction, the end of the Al-Can, was only 200 miles away, and the border? Twenty...
by Richard Quinn | May 9, 2023 | Alaska Highway, Canadian Road Trips, Mountains, Road Trips, Travel
Click Maps and Photos for an expanded view. The sun was up and pouring through my window at 4:30 AM, so I arose early and rolled out of Fort Nelson at 6:00. The plan was to drive at least as far as Watson Lake, 319 miles and about 7 hours away, but clear over on the...
by Richard Quinn | Sep 3, 2015 | Travel
Some Alaska Highway Highlights: (More coming soon)! Okay–so I’ve actually DONE it, and it was more amazing than I ever could have dreamed! I drove north from Arizona, following the west coast of the U.S. as far as Vancouver, then north and east through...
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