by PeterMurtagh-user | Jul 8, 2023 | Blog
Fairbanks, Alaska. Deadhorse is a 21st century version of a wild west town and it strikes me as a place where just about anything could happen. Well, almost anything: there’ll be no shoot out at the OK corral saloon bar because there ain’t no saloon bar in...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jul 3, 2023 | Blog
June 28th 2023, Livengood, nr Fairbanks, Alaska. Well, this is it, I guess. I’ve reached Fairbanks and the last road calls. Would Jack London have felt “the call of the road” I wonder? Movement, the road, going west are all core themes of American...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jul 2, 2023 | Blog
June 26th 2023 in Tok, Alaska. The fastest and easiest way to get to Alaska from Dawson City in The Yukon is to go to the north end of Front Street and there, hop on the free ferry that will take you across the Yukon River and you’re on your way. The ferry...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 30, 2023 | Blog
June 23rd 2023, McQuesten, Yukon. After Whitehorse, I took Highway 2 — the Klondike Highway — straight north towards Dawson City. The Yukon is just over 480,000 square kilometers in size. To give that some perspective, France is 551,000 square kilometers,...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 28, 2023 | Blog
June 25th 2023, Dawson City. Dawson City is a real ramshackle place — half falling down, half done up, but for all that, fantastically attractive, for me at any rate. Bits of it are like every western movie you’ve ever seen. The roads are unpaved, just...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 28, 2023 | Blog
June 21st 2023, Whitehorse, The Yukon. There are times riding Highway 37 deep into British Columbia and nearing the crossing into The Yukon when everything you see all around you, and I mean for miles and miles and miles, appears to be utterly devoid of people, or any...
