showmetravelers: 7/28/2014 Travel Day: Fairbanks to Tok (Tok (rhymes with oak) RV Village, Tok, AK)

We have started the southbound sojourn. We traveled about 200 miles to Tok. Does that name sound familar?

One has to travel through Tok going north and south. We have been here before.

Today's journey is a desolate area. There were trees, always lots of trees, a few rivers, but no cabins/houses built alongside the road or back in the trees or on the sides of the mountains.

The lone stop was Delta Junction, the northern end of the 1422-mile long ALCAN Highway. The Visitors' Center was interesting. We stopped there for lunch.

"We" means Jim and Dee and Gayla and Glen. The Framily Caravan has split as of this morning.

Gary and Evelyn need to be in Missouri by August 11. This Thursday, July 31, they are boarding the Alaskan Marine Highway Ferry at Haines, Alaska for a 40-hour ride to Prince Rupert, BC.. Jeff and Marcella are travelling with them to Haines, but will not ride the ferry. From there they will travel farther south in their RV.

All spots were filled for the Haines' ferry when we called this morning to see about boarding the ferry. The next available slots were for Thursday, August 7. Both Jim/Dee and us will get on the ferry at that time, going to Prince Rupert, BC.

Here's some pictures from the stop at the Visitors' Center in Delta Junction.

Glen hears the mosquito saying "I vant your blood."

See, the mosquito is big enough to be the state bird.

Gayla: in fear of her life.

Glen and Gayla at the northern end of the ALCAN highway, 1422 miles from Dawson Creek.

Roadhouses were built "a day's travel apart". Sullivan's was built in 1905.

Sullivan Roadhouse was disassembled, carried log by log by a helicopter to to this location, and reassembled. It is on the National Historic Registry. The original roof was replaced with a metal roof.