Alaska Highway Road Trip | Pt 2 | British Columbia to Yukon, Canada
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- 13 bears in one day!
The wildlife sightings are getting more epic with each day along our Alaska Highway road trip! This week we make it to the Yukon, but not before stopping for a much anticipated soak in a natural hot spring!
The Alaska Highway is a bucket list road trip spanning 1,390 miles from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Delta Junction, Alaska and passing through the Yukon along the way. We spent 9 days driving this road which is full of epic wildlife, stunning views, hikes, fun stops, and so much more along the way!
This is Part 2 of 3 in our AlCan Highway series, and we'll show you everything you need to plan your own road trip on this iconic highway. From fuel costs, places to stay - including free boondocking spots and paid sites - to things to do, see, and eat.
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PLACES VISITED IN THIS VLOG:
Liard River Hot Springs
Watson Lake Sign Post Forest
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George Johnston Museum
Carcross Desert
SS Klondike
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"Nothing says relaxation like self defense" 😂 What a beautiful hot springs area. Curry, yummy. That's a lot of signs! Poland is so incredible. Wish we had citizenship there!!Happy birthday Andie!!!
thanks you guys!!!!
That museum looks really quirky and unusual! How fun 🤩
George Johnston was way ahead of his time. Inspiring man.
I'm so happy for you that you've seen such awesome wildlife! 🙌
we’re hooked. we want more wildlife everywhere we go now. 😅
Wow! Loved the hot springs (of course) and sign forest! And everything else! 😜😘
we could definitely use more hot springs stops on our travels.
Lots of cool Easter eggs imbedded in this one! Happy 39th! And Gratulacje on that Poland news!
ha! thanks! 🥰
Love the drone footage!
thanks! we spent so much time in national and provincial parks that we couldn’t put the drone up as much as we would have liked, but glad we managed to get some in spots.
@@StephenandAndie that is so annoying that you can't do it in national parks!
Had to give a shout out to Stephen’s black and red checked shirt/jacket. So “lumberjack!” ❤
😁 Thanks! Some days were the perfect weather for it, that's for sure.
I would love to go to those Hot Springs! That looked super fun! Except for the biting flies. I got so many mosquito bites in Belgium, it was rough!
ugh - mosquitos are miserable. we’ve been in some beautiful places where I’ve refused to get out of the van because of all the mosquitos.
Nice vlogs nicely work ❤❤❤
@@farooqlhrofficial2251 thank you!
Happy Birthday Andie... 2 months later! My birthday is a week from today 😉
thank you! 🥰
A pretty 💩y start to this video, guys! 😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels 🤣
Thought it was very interesting too, you guys explaining the brush being cut back for, one, the safety of the animals, and second, for the tourists to see the animals. 🤔
isn’t it so smart? we should do it down here in the lower 48.
Nice campsite and your enjoyment is infectious. ❤
we would have loved to stay at that site longer.
“In Stephen & Andie fashion, we’re getting off to a late start.” 🤣 We empathize!
Yeah, walking up on a herd of bison isn’t like meeting new friends at the pub. But the water - yes!
“I feel dumb. Do you feel dumb?” Again, we get it. And relying on tech TOO much? Not good.
View. After view. After view. That would be enough. Let alone the river & hot spring stop offs!
Ooooh, silver? Did they recover from the hard-boiled eggs?
The bears all over! They forgot to report to Chicago for training camp. (Sorry, but we have to stay on brand. 🤪)
Yukon!
“Little guyyyyyysssss!!!!” Adorbs.
And a grizz, fo shizz!
That aurora storm footage…whooo. Wow.
(The kid interrupts.)
You used the kid’s favorite Epidemic song about the George Johnson museum. A fantastic 70s funk artist… #ohwait
“If it walks like a desert and talks like a desert…”
The views again! Interrupted by wipers…
I think you need a sideline reporter or postgame show host to do your stats review & John Madden to analyze the map with the on-screen telestrator.
Seriously, just…awesome.
(Oh, and AnonyMommy loves bunnies!)
Aw, thanks, Sorgi fam! This was such an unbelievable experience, we’re so glad you’re enjoying it, too! So, the kid’s got great taste in Epidemic music, and Anonymommy’s got great taste in wildlife, too! Thanks for watching! 😊❤️
This was a lot of fun! That hot springs looked amazing. Patti and I were giggling as you approached the rocks, "Ouch, nope, that's too hot" 🔥😂 And for some reason, I harken back to the song, "Bears" by the '80's hair band, Zebra! Stephen, you remember "Zebra?" LOVED that group. 🦓
ha! I was thinking about them the other day!
@@StephenandAndie Funny! I need to revisit them (step out of our EDM genre for a bit) I Gotta look up "Who's Behind the Door"!
You guys are too cute! 😂
lol - thanks!
Looks wonderful. And not showing much traffic, so was it truly pretty "smooth sailing?
@@marialabarge5253 it’s not a busy highway at all. the only “traffic” is when you have to wait for a herd of bison in the road.
I feel your pain re: relying on Google Maps 😬
@@MagentaOtterTravels technology is definitely a love/hate thing for us.
@@StephenandAndie same! My computer stopped working for a couple days and it took me several days to get my phone working here on the European continent! 🙄
I am guessing your probably back south in the lower 48 unless your staying in Alaska all summer. its 18 years ago when I drove up to Alaska and due to time and of course $$ constraints my trip was pretty much frill free and on the move from very early in the morning to often midnight. I am actually from the Grande Prairie area ( and so yes the fire in Jasper is devastating to me, that's a whole other topic ). I had a mile post book but did not look at it that much as I had certain ideas of where I wanted to go and knew nothing of so many other places I could have gone "if" I would have had the time and funds. Almost all of what I spent was on gas. Speaking of covering distance, the first day and I am a couple of hours east of Mile Zero in Alberta, I went from home almost up to Teslin and that included hiking to Liard hot springs to check it out briefly. Day 2 into Whitehorse and stayed for the July 1st parade and then all the way up to Dawson City. Day 3 toured around Dawson on guided walking tour and a museum and the dredge tour just out of town and left that evening on the ferry across the Yukon to the Top of the World Highway and drove to near the US border. Day 4 waiting until 9 am for the border to open and then drove all the way up to the arctic circle north of Fairbanks on the Dalton "Highway" which of course is mostly gravel and encountered a rutted mud stretch and stayed company with the mosquitoes that night at the arctic circle. Day 5 back south from the arctic circle over to Denali. Day 6 toured Denali on a shuttle and then drove almost to Anchorage. Day 6 down to Exit Glacier and hiked to the glacier, Seward and across over to Kenai town area. Day 7 over to Homer and then back north to Anchorage and then almost to Glenallen. Day 8 to south of Carcross YK. Day 9 to Skagway to look around the town and museum ( and see the people starting to stream off the cruise ships ) and drove a few roads out of town to old cemeteries etc and then back to Watson lake area. I did not include all the interactions I had with people or helping stranded motorists along the way ( lots of stories ). Of course still far from home yet because of where else I went but that gives you a pace of the trip to that point, from there Jade City, Telegraph creek road and the remote town by the same name, Hyder AK and the glacier on the Canadian side into the back country, Prince George, down to Kamloops and over to Emerald Lake, Banff town, lake louise, hiked onto the Columbia icefield, jasper town, Edith Cavell glacier hike, Maligne Lake, hiked the Maligne canyon trail etc and north back to Grande Prairie area. I never had a cell phone and didn't see anyone else that had one either, would never have worked anyway back then anyway up in the Yukon or Alaska or remote parts of BC. Thought you might get a kick out of reading this and have your head spinning 😆
Wow, that is amazing! What great track you kept of the journey, and understandably - it’s definitely a road trip for the books! Thank you so much for sharing - we’re all ears! ❤️
@@StephenandAndie That was the downside of a rushed trip covering so much ground, too much roading ( and lack of sleep ) and not the time to smell all the roses ... or is that moose and bear scat 😅