Earlyish start for a longish journey about 380 miles but some very rough terrain. First place we came to was a tiny town called North Pole. The locals had the whole place decorated in a Christmas theme, even the street lights resembled candy sticks. Street names like St Nicholas Way etc. -- very amusing.
This was a mostly boring first part to the drive with very long (8 mile) straights and tree lined so no views just the excitement of the next corner coming up. We crossed the Tanana River and saw the Trans_Alaskan oil pipeline - major excitement. Next stop was Tok, pronounced Toke, this is a crossroads for highways 1 & 4. Picnic lunch, fuel and onwards. A short distance later we changed highway, more excitement, onto highway 5, there are 9 altogether. This took us towards Boundary and the border crossing there. The nornal paved road stopped and we were on dirt track, fortunatley Fern was driving this stint so I could relax. We stopped at Chicken, allegedly called this because the locals couldn't spell Ptarmigan (can I?). Eileen said "Hi" to Bronco at the gas station as he knows her son Martin. The stretch of road, next 40 miles plus, is called "The Top of the World Highway" still dirt track but offering some truly magnificent views in panorama.
This was a mostly boring first part to the drive with very long (8 mile) straights and tree lined so no views just the excitement of the next corner coming up. We crossed the Tanana River and saw the Trans_Alaskan oil pipeline - major excitement. Next stop was Tok, pronounced Toke, this is a crossroads for highways 1 & 4. Picnic lunch, fuel and onwards. A short distance later we changed highway, more excitement, onto highway 5, there are 9 altogether. This took us towards Boundary and the border crossing there. The nornal paved road stopped and we were on dirt track, fortunatley Fern was driving this stint so I could relax. We stopped at Chicken, allegedly called this because the locals couldn't spell Ptarmigan (can I?). Eileen said "Hi" to Bronco at the gas station as he knows her son Martin. The stretch of road, next 40 miles plus, is called "The Top of the World Highway" still dirt track but offering some truly magnificent views in panorama.
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