Sunday June 29th
2014
Anchorage, AK –
Beaver Creek, YT
427 miles, 8 hours 41 minutes
438 miles, 8:15 am – 4:38 pm (Alaska time)
About an hour and half of last packing, moving, and
cleaning. Breakfast. Nice and pleasant morning with sunshine.
Gasoline at Costco (last reasonably priced gas for a while). And …
surprisingly … drive, drive, and drive. We already drove this route
(on our first drive to Anchorage). Full summer season … I guess.
Not much to start with … leave Anchorage, drive along Palmer, and
Glenn Highway … felt more curvy then we remembered. No wildlife for
whole day (what is going on???). First real stop at the viewpoint for
Matanuska glacier. Greener and nicer, great view of the glacier (much
better then in winter when everything is covered with snow). About
four hours behind us when we got to Glennalen junction. The gas
station (priced at 4.58) had lines for all its pump (there is not
much around that area). Another 100 miles or so to Tok – we almost
took a wrong turn (well, we did but turned around immediately).
Another … surprisingly … endless drive. Nice and green scenery,
pretty good views of Wrangell mountains. Tok – gasoline. 90 more
miles to Canadian border – this part of the road was really bad in
winter, this time it was patched and pretty good. Still, very long
and tedious drive. Border crossing – nothing special, asked about
guns, money, alcohol, and tobacco. Twenty more miles to Beaver Creek
(small border settlement). The room for 90 dollars, it was few small
cottages, restaurant, and bar. Named after the owner, who apparently
checked us in, and looked like tired and overworked. Sunny. The tiny
cottage got pretty warm. Tired. Read, eat, watch television, go to
sleep.
