Day 17 – Now we’re in Red Deer

Worked some HF today too.   Talked to w7sac in Fort Walton Beach from about 25 miles west of Edmonton, Alberta.  Been on 14.245MHz and talked to a few others too.  HF signals were nothing but static in the Yukon and further north but now were getting BIG signals in from all over the place.  Today … Read more

Day 15 – Book Bug is free

Well we finally found a travel bug exchange cache that the Book Bug found inviting.  There were a lot of micro caches along the way yesterday.  The one in North Pole I intended to put him in seemed to have disappearing travel bugs.  So we decided to move on.  Book Bug is at the “Ladybug … Read more

Day 14 – Back to the YUKON!

We left Fairbanks and began making our way back home.  We saw two moose today, Nancy wasn’t quick enough with the camera and it scampered off into the woods… we got a couple of good pictures of it’s butt as it scampered off… We also saw two coyotes… we took pictures of the first… the … Read more

Day 13 – Move to Fairbanks

Was a fairly short trip, I think a little over 200 miles not sure as I didn’t track mileage. Stopped at Denali state park for photos and had lunch at Denali National Park and Preserve. We drove straight to the North Pole and visited the Library.  The librarian said there were 300 children signed up … Read more