Back to the Alaska Hwy

So, after the fun on the Campbell Hwy, we debated the sanity of going up the Liard Hwy to the NorthWest Territories and maybe Yellowknife. Research has revealed that most of that road is very similar to the Campbell. The first 100k is paved and the last 100k is paved. The rest of the 800k trip would be gravel and dirt. Looking at our tires, or what's left of them, and our windshield, we decided to leave that trip for another time. Maybe we should start to meander back home.

Meander is what we are doing. We have stopped again at the Liard Hotsprings, dallied at Stone Mountain, and tried to fish most rivers we come across. The wildlife in the northern part of BC is still abundant with bears and bison, but now the caribou is starting to move so we saw several batches of them as well. We want to come a different way as much as possible, except that the Alaska Hwy has a monopoly on this area. Leaving Fort St John, we plan on heading toward the Lesser Slave Lake area, which we haven't seen yet. Distractions are all around us, and we still have a little under one month to finish seeing as much as we can.


The days are getting shorter much faster than we had expected. It seemed that one week the sun went down at 11pm and the next it was 9pm. Where we are in Fort St John in BC, it is now completely dark at 9:30. We are using flashlights again, after having dug them out of the back.

But we're having so much fun camping, does it have to end?

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