The journey to Alaska

We started the journey on Monday Aug 30th and arrived to our house in Alaska on Friday Sept. 3. Five days of driving 12-15 hours each day in a U-haul with our car on a trailer behind us. These are the stops that we made-1st day: Yorkton- Saskatchewan, 2nd day: Whitecourt -Alberta, 3rd day: Muncho Lake-British Columbia, 4th day: Haines Junction-Yukon Territory, 5th day: Eagle River Alaska. The roads were mostly paved but some in the Yukon Territory were gravel. Some of the roads were narrow and right next to the mountain. I drove for about two hours and I white knuckled it the whole time. Thank you to my amazing hubby for driving us all the way here. I could have never driven some of the roads-full of hills, huge pot holes and narrow ways. It was a little crazy at times. We got one flat tire or I should say blew one tire around Watson Lake in the Yukon Territory. Luckily by time we noticed it we were in a town and got it fixed quickly. On our way here we saw 2 black bears, 2 moose, elk and a grey fox. The wildlife was crazy! Northern Canada was really interesting. Tiny towns that all close by 6-8pm-no pay at the pump gas and on average a 12% tax rate on everything! (all for their health care) You take for grated getting a hotel or gas any time you want in the U.S. Axel did really well for a 2 year old. Thank you to who ever invented portable DVD players. Over all the trip went really well and we ended up being only one hour off the time we planned from Minneapolis Mn to Eagle River Alaska.