‘RamblingRat America’ Archives
Toolik Field Station
1086 Well I'm up in the arctic and last night was my second night up on the Dalton highway, the road was built back in the 80's by the Aleysken oil pipe line company and was the idea of James Dalton who its named after, the road is about 500 miles long and runs from Fairbanks up to Deadhorse and your horse would be dead if you rode up hear in [...]
On my own. Wednesday 3 December 2008 Temp -17
36 About a week ago Chris had arranged to get a copy of his birth certificate sent up to a youth hostel in Fairbanks and the hostel called Billies is a great place to meet like minded travelers we both made some new friends and Chris last night had decided to have a night with some of the people from the hostel and I decided to do my [...]
Arctic Blunder’s December 2nd Minus 40oC
23 Last night we left the engine running all night and the outside temperature has plummeted down to -40°C this is the coldest I have ever experienced in my life, Sweden was minus 28 but this really goes through you we are only 500 miles away from the most northernly point in America which is above latitude 70 and can go down to minus [...]
Fairbanks Alaska
33 Tomorrow we are going to start a 500 mile drive up the Dalton highway which is the furthest north that you can drive anywhere in the world, we will be 7 miles away from the arctic sea when we arrive in Prudhoe Bay the day after tomorrow. (more...)
Tok, Alaska
27 We had a very long and bleak drive up into Alaska but the scenery was stunning, the days are closing in us and not so much daylight is available, we crossed the border very easily as we were the only car at a very cold minus 16 border, but we were told this was warm as temperature can drop to minus 50. (more...)
Whitehorse – Mileage 262431
We had a good sleep at Dease Lake and at breakfast met Kyle and his friend Kyle, not sure if this is how to spell your names so please comment if its not correct, anyway one of the Kyles is Zora's son and the other Kyle has been working at the cafe were we slept, he cooked us some breakfast, I had cheekily asked for a large breakfast to be halved [...]
Dease Lake
We left Smithers at 10 am and drove up the Cassiar Highway towards Stewart a small Canadian village on the border of Southern Alaska and we crossed the border into Hyder Alaska a very small village in America completely cut off from Alaska with only 40 people there, had a border crossing and they were about the most exciting thing in the place as [...]
