Ring, ring! Ring, ring! 6:45 AM, my alarm went off. Sleepy I managed to get out of my warm sleeping bag, taking on pretty much everything on clothes I had with me to get warm again. Quickly packing some slices of bread and cream cheese in my bag and then…
This and the next two posts report about the maybe most beautiful journey I ever did. Those who usually only scroll over the texts and only watch the photos, I don’t mind that, are now invoked to not do so this time and read all of it instead. To express…
The Klondike Highway connects the harbor city Skagway with the gold fields close to Dawson City. The northern part to Whitehorse we already had driven down but there was actually nothing interesting to report about. Only forests and a couple of hills along the roadside. But now the southern part,…
Astonishing, how we just get a couple of warm days to go camping on the nearly most northern point of our journey. We just turned onto the Dempster Highway as we left it again a couple kilometers later to turn into a small gravel road, on which’s end there once…
Like already described we reached Dawson City over the Top-of-the-World-Highway shortly after we entered Canada again. Dawson, the city of gold seemed not to have lost any of its wild western flair since the last gold rush. Gravel roads, sidewalks out of wooden planks and colorful wooden frontages along the…
The journey from Fairbanks to Dawson turned out to be a really long one. Nevertheless, we experienced quite some good moments on those two travel days. Real stops weren’t planned on that route but the spontaneous traveler always finds some nice places to pull up. The first one came just…
One of our main destinations in Alaska was the Denali National Park, which covers large areas of the Alaska Range and in the middle of it the Mount Denali, also known as Mount McKinley, which is the highest mountain in North America. We arrived at the park in the late…
Alaska! We made it! We drove most of the Alaska Highway up here and then made our way to Anchorage. The Alaska Highway will definitely be the subject of another blog post, but today I wanna tell you something about Anchorage. As the biggest city in Alaska, the town slain…
Hiking 60 kilometers! Within three days! With heavy backpacks! Humans get really weird ideas! Why it was actually worth it anyways I now wanna report. For the Kluane National Park, we chose a real heavyweight. A hike over three days, that would bring us far into the park into a…
Our first destination in the Yukon Territory was its capital Whitehorse. We arrived there in the evening and parked our van at Walmart, getting some new supplies and sleeping there. The next day we checked out the small city center and organized a canoe tour for the following day. As…
Once we left Revelstoke and all trails in the Glacier National Park were still closed we made our way to Lake Louise. The winter dominated the Rocky Mountains, too, so we didn’t really had something to do there. So we drove up the Icefields Parkway, a street that I will…
The last hike before our big jump to Revelstoke was at the Joffre Lakes. The Joffre Lakes lay on a pass between Pemberton and Lillooet. The count three lakes that formed in a glacier valley. The way up lasts around 1,5 hours. We experienced a beautiful bright and sunny day…
As we already did two awesome hikes in the last days some recreation was on our bucket list. What is more perfect for that than hot springs? Close to the village Pemberton, which is the end of the Sea to Sky Highway, are the Keyhole Hotsprings. Indeed you first have…
The next stop on our list after we hiked the Stawamus Chief two days ago and had a planning day in between was the hike up to Garibaldi Lake. The Garibaldi Lake lays in the Garibaldi Provincial Park between Squamish and Whistler on an elevation of 1484 meters. Usually, it…
The Stawamus Chief is a must-do-hike when you drive up the Highway 99 towards Whistler, which is also called the Sea to Sky Highway. Shortly before Squamish, the big granite block elevates on the right hand of the highway. You can go up on all three peaks of the Stawamus…
Once we were cured of the exertions of the rainy date of departure on Vargas Island, all the clothes were washed in a wash saloon and we took one of the really cold beach showers we craved for some more relaxed activities. We decided to drive to a Recreation Area…
Canada, you definitely got me under your charm now! To link to the other four Germans was such a lucky shot. We found our paradise on that island. The first day we got brought to the east side of the island by a Tofino-Water-Taxi. At first, we were a little…
Tofino. Only the name somehow sounds like a lovely place. And if the weather is good Tofino and the Pacific Rim National Park are really nice places. It is truly wonderful here. On our arrival day, we really had luck with the weather. During the whole journey to the west…
Slowly Vancouver develops to bother me. The city is beautiful and offers a lot of opportunities, but many of them I already experienced and slowly I crave for less hustle and bustle and especially for less high expenses. It took me two weeks to get a car, getting it fit…
With this post, I’m reporting the first time from Canada! Yeah, I made it! The start of my adventure was successful. I don’t wanna bother you with any formalities I had to do at the beginning of my stay as a Work-and-Traveller but rather present you the benefits of Vancouver…
