Okay, I know you are thinking I must be a bit off to do a post about the Alaskan roads, but I thought I'd give you a view of our trip down to Tok. As like all the other highways up here, the road is full of patches and ups and downs. It can be really noisy going over the bumps when everything in the camper shakes, rattles and rolls!
We passed by another area of burned out trees. With all of this rain up here, how could a fire even start? Then I talked to the cashier at Rika's Roadhouse. A wildfire had come within 300 yards of her house the previous day. She said that the rain may go down into the tundra an inch or two, the fires burn up to 2 feet under the ground! They may continue burning throughout the winter and create hot spots that need to be looked at. That is so different from Arizona...all that rock, sand and caliche would never burn.
More snow capped mountains and dark clouds greeted us as we traveled south on Highway 2.
And this is what it looks like when you take a wrong turn! We thought we were pulled into a rest area and discovered the road didn't curved back to the highways. All 3 of us had to back up back to the highway since there was absolutely no place to turn around.
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