Alaska Road Trip Day 18

Thursday, 4 September

Yukon, BC, and Alaska…240 miles

Started the long drive day at Soldier’s Summit trail

Love chilling in the red Adirondack chairs that are in the Canada parks

When I drove through this area before it was just green and now it’s all fall colors just a week and a half later

Drove all the way to Haines. This is the Chilkoot river.

I sat for a while in Haines trying to figure out what to do. The flight seeing over gates of the Arctic and Kobe Valley can finally happen on Saturday, but I have to fly to Kotzebue. It would mean, taking a sea plane to Juneau, then flying to Anchorage, staying the night there, then flying to Kotzebue, doing the tour, staying there, flying out the next morning to Anchorage and then Juneau, staying there, and then taking a sea plane back out Monday morning. All of this without my car. Delaying my trip three days days and costing a couple of thousand dollars more. I really want to see those parks but that’s a lot. I texted Steve and he said he would come with me later to see those parks so that’s what I’m going to do.

In the meantime, the company flying over glacier Bay called and said they had an opening that afternoon. So a day early, off I went!