Alaska Trip Journal
Day 1
Day 1 was not very fun. After all, I think it will be our most boring day in our 17 day vacation. Today we drove 1,000 miles. It was very , very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very boring. Here is the basic summary:
On day 1we left our awesome house at 6:07. By the way, I woke up at about 5:37. We first went on CA-85 then Interstate 237 after that Interstate-880 than Interstate-680 than (annoying) Interstate-80 last Interstate-5. I don’t like the planes part of I-5. Now I am going to talk about the part Steven Didn’t talk about because he fell asleep. During that time, we saw a couple dust devils. We also saw some hot air balloons. It was very cool. It was about 11:00 when we got to Redding.
In about a few more minutes, we got to Oregon. Oregon was pretty boring. At Portland, we stop to grab a snack which was a Chips Ahoy!. It was very yummy. Chips Ahoy! are chocolate chip cookies. I also had a Choco Pie. We guessed the last exit number in Oregon. Me and Steven guessed correctly. In Portland, We also got stuck in a fruit I mean traffic jam. In Washington, it was basically just farmlands and other boring things. During the border there was a traffic jam. The person at the border thingy asked a lot of questions. Some were if you had any fruits. Why do they care about that????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Then we spent about half-an-hour finding our hotel. We slept at a Super 8. We slept in Abbotsford. That’s the end of day one.
Day 2
Today we drove from Abbotsford to Dawson Creek. It was kind of boring, well except for the last part which will be included later. Here is the basic summary of the day.
Today is day two; we drove from Abbotsford to Dawson Creek. It was kind of boring except for the last part which we played at the Alaska Highway Mile 0 Monument. It was fun, but first I have to talk about the things on the way there. I woke up at 7:00 AM Then I went to breakfast. They didn’t have anything good there. Steven had some oatmeal. We detached at 7:30. On the way it was boring. At Dawson Creek it was fun. First of all, I got a new camera lens, It can zoom to 105, but I don’t know the point of it. This is the end of day 2.
Day 3
Day3 was interesting. We drove from Dawson Creek to Watson Lake. The start was kind of boring. Here is the summary.
On day 3 we drove from Dawson Creek to Watson Lake. I woke up at 6:55 in the morning. (I knew that because I looked at the clock. I try some waffles, but they didn’t have syrup. It didn’t taste good. I ended up having Choco pie for breakfast. For the first couple hundred miles, it was kind of boring, except the fact that my dad would go very fast and pass every car/truck/bus he saw and wasn’t going at like 10,000,000,000,000 miles an hour. It was very fun. Towards the end of the ride we saw 9 baby bear s and a whole herd of buffalo. It was cool. For the herd of buffalo, we got off the car to get pictures. One of them rolled in the mud. For the bears, 7 of them were just wandering around, but the last 2 were eating berries from a tree. How cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! J At Watson Lake, he slept at a place called “Dragon’s Den”. It was pretty cozy. Then we went to Sign Post Forest.
We explored for about 2 hours. There were a lot of mosquitos. Then we went to sleep
Day4
On day4 we drove from Watson Lake to Tok on the Alaskan Highway. It was fun. Here is the story of day4.
US custom, dad became careless and almost drove off the bridge ramp. After a few more hours, we got to the US custom. This person wasn’t as annoying as the guy at the other On day4 we drove from Watson Lake to Tok on the Alaskan highway. It was very fun. I woke up at 6:30. They didn’t have any breakfast. It kind of sucked. We drove and we saw 37. We kept on driving until the afternoon where the road trolled dad because it was so bumpy. It took almost took 4 hours. Then we saw two bears running. The first bear was fatter and the second bear was skinnier. The first bear was lightly colored and the second bear was darker. They were heading towards a campsite where 4 people were talking. Oh-noes custom. Then the road got very smooth, right cthen, it got bumpy and dad was trolled again. In a few more minutes, we got to Tok; it took us about 10 minutes to find a hotel that had room. Here is the end of day 4.
Day 5
On day 5, we drove from Tok to Anchorage on the Glen Highway and the Tok Cutoff. It was beautiful. Here is the basic summary.
On the morning of day 5, I woke up at about 7:30. My dad and mom were already packing up. The then told me to take a bath. So I take a bath. Then my brother took a bath. We detached at about 8:30 in the morning. The Tok cutoff wasn’t as beautiful. The Glen highway was very awesome. It went through the mountains. It was very boss. We drove about 300 miles on the Glen highway. Then it combined with the parks highway. At palmer, we turned onto the old Glen highway. It was a road that went through the mountains, it was pretty scenic. Then after the old glen highway combined with the Glen highway, It became a actual highway. Then we arrived at Anchorage. it took us about 2 hours to find a available hotel. It had one room left. Then we went to sleep
Day 6
Today we went on the Seward and stirring highway. On the Seward highway, we first turned out on to the Alysa Highway. We found a hotel there. The pond with the Glacier in the background looked beautiful. Then me my, brother, and my mom fell asleep. I woke up just before the exit leading to exit glacier. We first hiked the trail that was 0.8 miles long and got very close to it, but we couldn’t touch it. Then we hiked to the outwash and touched the Glacier. Before you can touch it, you had to climb through some trees. I was afraid my dad would hit his camera lens on a wall because. It was very big and worth a lot of money I was the first one to touch the ice on the glacier. It was very fun. Then we hiked out and drove to seaward. We then got on the stirring highway. We drove past stirring into a city called present ( I don’t know.) The hotels are very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very
expensive. The cheapest is $179 + tax. (We are sleeping in that one) After we got in, me and my brother played a lot of poccor. It was very fun. Then we went to sleep.
Day 7
Today we drove to the city next to denali national park. We try to find a hotel but they wasn’t one that dad would go to that had vacancy. Then me and mom went to ask a giant hotel called denali princess, since i wrote this page at home, I knew the things after it. At skagway, we realize that this hotel had at least two cruise ships.
Day 8
On day 8, we drove from the city next to denali national park to the arctic circle then to fairbanks. The drive to fairbanks was about 100 miles. Then the rest was about 400. we drove about 500 miles today.
The stretch from the city next to denali national park was boring. Then we got on the Elliot highway, it was pretty interesting because it went through the mountains. Then we went on the Dayton highway. I was very fun because it was a dirt road. It was kind of boring until after the Yukon River crossing Then the road conditions got worse and there were lots of steep hills. Three of them had a name. They were Sand Hill, Roller Coaster, and Rock and Roll. Whenever we stopped, mosquitoes tried to get in the car. At the Arctic Circle monument, i was getting on the car when a mosquito got in the car. When I slapped it, the blood inside the mosquito splatted on my window. On the way back, The ride was kind of boring. When we arrived at fairbanks again, we found our hotel, Pioneer Park Best Western plus. I really liked it. Then we went to sleep.
Day 9
Today I woke up at around 6:30 in the morning. We had a quick breakfast and then we left for denali national park. We arrived in time for the last wonder lake round trip. Our bus left at about 10:15 AM. The bus driver was called Jeremy we just saw one bear that was take photo abel. we saw it cross the road, our bus was almost right in front of it. The rest of the ride was pretty boring. When we got to wonder lake there were so much mosquitos. The bus driver had a fly swatter that zapped the mosquito. The mosquitos were very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, annoying. My dad got stung like 10 times on the bus. When we got back to the station, it already closed. So we walked around it. Then we drove back to fairbanks and went to sleep.
Day 10
Today was a very interesting day. Here is the summary.
Today I woke up at about 7:30. I was the second one to wake up. The first part of the road was kind of boring but, the Top of The World Highway was very interesting. The whole Top of The World Highway was dirt. It went on the top of the mountains. The mountains weren’t that tall, only 4,000 ft, but they looked like they were 10,000 ft. They looked tall because the base was at sea level. My dad’s max speed was about 40 mph. It took about 3 hours to drive the about 100 mile road. When we arrived at the end of the Top of The World Highway. we had to cross the yukon river by boat. The boat was very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, loud. Once we crossed the yukon, We started looking for a hotel. The hotel we slept in was called the bunk house. When we got in, It only had two singles, and one table, They didn’t even have a bathroom/washroom. After checking in, we went out to buy some dinner. we bought some pizza. We bought a large “gold nugget” pizza. ( Cheese, canadian bacon, pineapples) It was very yummy. then we went to sleep. It wasn’t comfortable. I finally fell asleep at about 12:30.
Day 11
Today i woke up early because the beds were too hard. Then we left for skagway. The part to white horse was boring but the part after that was very scenic. A little bit after white house was emerald lake. Emerald lake was light green. It was so cool. after that, we drove on and saw the world’s smallest desert. It had 2 sand dunes. Then the we went through some tiny hills with small light green lakes. then we crossed the US customs. After that It started to turn into tall mountains. When we arrived at skagway, we went to board the ferry too Hains and then go to Juneau, but we missed the 3:00 PM ship to hains. (the only ship to hains) Then we decided to stay at skagway. Ever hotel in town was full, but a kind owner told us about some cabins in dyea. The cabins there were really nice and the owner was nice to. We got to ride a bicycle and cook s'mores. I was bad at making s’mores and I may have ruined all of mine but 2. When we ran out of chocolate, me and my brother started to play with some marshmallow only s’mores. We played a game called marshmallow planes. It was fun. I ended up winning more than my brother. It was fun. Then we went to sleep.
Day 12
Today is day 12, we stayed mostly in skagway. I had some cereal some tuna bagels, and some pancakes. After that, we went down to skagway to ride the white pass and yukon route. We missed the 8:15 one so we rode the 12:45 one. The start wasn’t that interesting, but there were some scenic parts like inspiration point. The rest of the ride wasn’t as beautiful, but they still were beautiful. At white pass summit, The train was should've turned around but there was a train traffic jam and we went on forward. We went until the canadian customs. Then the train turned around. because we didn’t have our passports. The ride back wasn’t that interesting. then we drove back to the alaska highway then we drove to teslin. We found a massive hotel ( Cabin ) It had 3 queens, 1 large TV , 2 sofas, and much, much more. We then played for a while. After that we went to sleep.
Day 13
Today is day 13. We sadly left our hotel after lots and lots of photos. Then we set of for burns lake. The ride was kind of scenic. Then it got boring but, i still looked outside. On the first part, there were no center line. During the trip, dad’s car started to get loud. Then everyone got worried. Then dad stopped to check the car. Then we drove and drove until we got to burns lake. The hotel we found was so empty and old that it looked creepy. then we played some more poccor and then went to sleep.
Day 14
