Merry Christmas in June!

We made a stop in at North Pole, Alaska. It had everything! We saw the pole, reindeer, and even hung out with Santa. Apparently he likes to go fishing out of Oceanside and knows the Miramar pyramid.

Making new friends

So we gotta tell you about our camping neighbors in Dawson. Espen and Malin are from Norway. They have a sweet custom built 2004 Nissan Patrol (Australian version) that they had shipped to Florida. They drove from there to Alaska and are now going head south all the way to South America. It's an amazing trip that they are doing and we were in awe of their stories so far.

Last night we dragged them out for some of the night life in Dawson, an we had a great time at the casino and the local bars.

Check out their website to see their adventures:
http://www.unurban.no/
We're excited to watch their adventures as they continue south!

One of the real delights of our trip so far has been meeting all of the cool and crazy people along the way. Yukon Dave in Whitehorse, Espen and Malin last night... And I still have to explain about Calgary Bob and Capt Mark, but that will be another post.

Who will we meet in Alaska??

Made it to Alaska!

The top of the world highway was awesome. The Canada side was not bad at
all, it was a nicely graded gravel road, but the US side was a not very
well maintained dirt road. We were doing a good 60mph in Canada and had to
drop down to 30-40ish once we crossed the border checkpoint. Anyway, we
made it!

The other photo is at Chicken, AK where we stopped for a tasty lunch.
That's basically the entire town right there in the photo.

We're in Delta Junction right now gassing up and on our way to Fairbanks!

Leaving Dawson

Time to drive the top of the world highway.

Last night was epic. Photo of the can-can show at Diamond Tooth Gertie's.

I'll tell you about the 'toe' later.

Dawson

Wow. Dawson is pretty cool. For you video game fans, its basically like
walking around in Blackwater from RDR but there are cars instead of horses.

Ben and I have stopped into the restaurant in the Downtown Hotel and then
plan to visit the local saloons and the see the show at Diamond Tooth
Gertie's casino. Should be a very interesting night!

We also met some awesome neighbors tonight at our campsite. We'll talk
about them more later but they are doing our dream road trip - the
Trans-America highway!

Made it to Dawson!

Just outside of town we took the detour to see Dredge #4, the largest
dredger in the north america... It was HUGE!! I can't imagine what it was
like when it was a rock eating and rock pooping monster.

And of course nothing I love better then abandoned vehicles in the middle
of nowhere!

Tonight we will explore Dawson

Road work in the Yukon

We're on highway 2 between Carmacks and Dawson. As usual around here, lots
of roadwork going on in the long gravel stretches. We waited here in the
middle of nowhere for about half an hour before the 'follow me' truck led
us down the road.

The plan for the rest of today is get in some fishing on our way to Dawson,
then roll into town to check out the crazy nightlife.