11 Black bears sitting by the road! Or... Route 37 AKA The Great Northern Highway. Again, another good nights sleep, I started off the driving and managed to successfully miss Nugget City so we ended up at Watson Lake to refuel instead...oops!! After making our way back we found the junction I had missed in the other direction and we began our journey down Route 37. We chose this route as oppose to staying on the Alaska Highway as it travels through the Rocky M...

Whitehorse and the Alaska Highway. Sleeping in Bertha was definately improved by the foam mattresses Bill gave us as we woke up refreshed, looking at a beautiful view across Klaune River in the morning sunshine. I started the day's driving covering a couple of hundred miles to reach Whitehorse. The roads steadily improved as the day went on and the scenery was nothing less than breathtaking!! I'm sure our pictures dont do it justice but we've tried to capture th...

Santa Clause House and escaping Alaska! We had planned to leave Fairbanks before midday, but true to the salsa spirit it was about 1pm when we set off. After filling up with fuel and buying a 1 and a half pint cup of coffee for $1.49 we were on our way. About half an hour out of fairbanks we stopped for a visit at Santa Clause House, in North Pole an entirely Christmas themed town! Ok so Santa's House is pretty much a large gift shop with just about everything ...

Springs, Surf and Turf! We arrived at the Cheena hot springs around midday and paid our $10 each for a day pass to the pools. The hot springs themselves have to be cooled down before they are safe to bathe in, there were two indoor hot tubs and a 25m swimming pool as well as a hot tub outside, but the main attraction was a very large rock pool outside where we spent most of our time. it had a fountain and water jet in it and the bootm was made of gravel. Int...

DJ ATM After waking the next morning we drove the last 40 miles to Fairbanks the next city along form Anchroage, a mere 350miles away!! With the clouds clearing we finally saw McKinnley, It is completly white and stands apart from all the other mountains like someone dropped it by mistake! When we reached Fairbanks we got in touch with DJ ATM (Jose) who was at the Salsa Festival in Anchorage and he agreed to give us a few ideas of what to look at in Fairbanks. W...