The Trip North – Day 1
I’m Back . . . with a sore butt and back to match. There were many long hours on the road driving from hither to yon. It was a trip to remember and very different from my past trips on The Alaskan Highway . I’m going to write this over several sittings and days as there has been so much happening. My last trips were in the middle of winter traveling the 3,100 miles from Salt Lake City , Utah to Anchorage , Alaska . The conditions were quite extreme with snow and blizzard conditions on part of the trip and temperatures ranging minus 25 to 35 below zero with high winds. During a three week period I drove the Alcan Highway three times, two traveling north and one driving southbound. On top of that were the two 5 hour airplane flights between the two cities. It made for an adventure that I have called 10,000 horizons and is in the final stages in book form. Anyway, due to an unseen circumstance in the planning stages of the trip north by my family it was decide