Day Seventyfive - Aug 8, 2009
Skagway, AK to Anchorage, AK
Daily Didactic
Our seventy-fifth morning on the road this summer started very early to get Todd and Cori to the ferry terminal for their 6:00 am check-in to Haines and then Juneau. This had the fortunate side effect of getting us on the trail home by 5:45. We drove immediately out of the seemingly abandoned Skagway and up and over the steep and foggy White Pass. Crossing the Canadian border for the fifth time this summer, we left the fog at Frazer. The day's drive was pleasantly uneventful as we moved through Carcross and Whitehorse, had lunch in Haines Junction, and traveled on through Destruction Bay, Burwash and Beaver Creek in the afternoon. We hit the Alaska border around 3:30 and, in spite of still being seven hours or so from Anchorage, felt at home.
We moved through Tok around 5:00, Glenallen about 6:30, and decided to take a "fourteen hours of driving" break at Eureka Pass for a late dinner. The bus was a sport through the day, but is clearly getting tired and as we hit our final road construction of the trip around Eagle River she growled a bit in discomfort.
We pulled into our driveway a little after 11:00 with tired and happy faces. After just shy of fifteen thousand miles and two and a half months on the road our favorite spot to call it a night is still in downtown Anchorage...
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