Drove about 530 miles today through a bit of Illinois, across Indiana & Ohio, & landing in Wheeling, WV - almost home. Most of the scenery was pretty boring, & much of the drive was rainy, so no pics today. Future trips will include WAY less driving & WAY more visiting of interesting people & places, so those reports should be more interesting. A steady rain is pitter-pattering on the trailer roof, so should sleep well in Cabela's parking lot with everything a person needs here in my little home on wheels.
Alaska!
Top-of-the-World Highway This road runs from Dawson City in the Yukon into Alaska. The 110-mile drive today was a dirt road with the exception of a 9-mile long paved stretch in the middle - seems odd to have a short paved stretch in the middle of a long dirt highway. arrived in Alaska! I've wanted to come to Alaska since I was 14. My day trip to Skagway last week was to a small corner of Alaska, but that corner isn't connected to this main part of the state, so this feels like my official arrival. Chicken, Alaska Apparently, the original residents here wanted to name the town after a chicken-like bird called a ptarmigan. However, they couldn't agree on how to spell that, so they compromised on "Chicken". It became a small town when the Pedro Dredge (now a National Historic Site) was set up here to dig for gold. Besides a few crazy tourists who...
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