Usher - Alaska & Points North Tips And Tales From The Road

Introduction :
Alaska & Points North

Alaska is all about the landscape: massive glaciers slithering down slopes that open into the expansive valleys where the buffalo and the caribou and the musk ox roam. A cinnamon-coloured grizzly teeters knee deep in foaming rapids to bat a leaping salmon into his bone-crunching jaws.

The ice fields of Prince William Sound calve icebergs as big as apartment buildings while sea otters play chicken in the chop beneath. Narrow gauge railroads reach for the sky, the Prudhoe Bay oilfields pump black gold through 24-hour nights while Klondike fever rolls out eccentric personalities still living the dream.

Evocative names like Denali and the Arctic Circle, Aurora Borealis and the Iditarod charge our batteries for adventure. We dream about the big trip, the one well do someday. When we point the camper north for Alaska.

Quit dreaming. Alaska and points north are now easy and accessible. Long gone are the sharp-shale roads that shredded tires. There are campgrounds and hotels and big box chains with competitive prices. Which is not to say it isnt an adventure.

We spent six weeks through July and August traveling all the legendary roads of the north in our camperized van. In the pages that follow I recount our experience, for better or worse. Always some of both when we travel but the worse always make the best stories.

Whether your perfect adventure is a fly-in tour, a cruise up the Inside Passage or a full-on self-guided drive through the wilderness, Alaska & Points North will give you lots to ponder as you start planning. The book is organized so that the right-side page tells the story while the left provides information like details, maps and contacts.

Who are we?

I am hopelessly addicted to travel shows but confess to being weary of lithe young hosts bounding from cliff to cliff on their twenty-something knees. We are living proof that life after 50 just gets better and better!

We met soon after Steve returned from a two- year trek around the world. I had been working and traveling through the UK. If not love at first sight, it was fascination at first chat. We were the only two people in the room who got each other. We married and raised kids and hauled them around North America with an old tent trailer Steve kept patching together.

This shared passion for seeing whats around the next corner is an itch weve now scratched together on every continent of the world but Antarctica.

We travel by bus, train, plane and boat but are most fond of roadtripping. Behind the wheel, we hit the open road, choosing secondary routes through the small towns of the world. We are on a lifelong quest to discover the best cinnamon rolls in country cafes and the tastiest fish on the beach.

We put some effort into staying healthy and fit but theres no doubt wed benefit from a little less taste testing of the sticky buns. In other words, we are pretty normal. Can you do the kind of traveling we do? Do you want to?

Join us on this trip through northern BC, Alaska and the Territories. If you like the idea of roadtripping but think 6 weeks is a bit long for you just pick a shorter segment that appeals to you.

Carolyn & Steve Usher

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