Over the last 40 years most of our travels between Alaska and Southern Calif have generally been centered along the fastest route, the I-5 corridor. When there were schedules to meet and family to visit it was the shortest distance between two points. Now that most of our timelines and deadlines are gone our new […]
Read more "Central Washington Surprises"After cruising the back roads of BC for almost three weeks the weather is beginning to cool and so to stay true to our mantra we must turn south and cross the border into the lower 48 ……as we Alaskans call it. Driving east from Osoyoos just north along the US border on Hwy 3 […]
Read more "Goodbye Beautiful British Columbia Hello Washington State"Our family has had a longstanding love affair with VW cars for the last 45 years. When we decided to take a tow vehicle with us on our current adventure it was an easy decision on what vehicle type to drag behind us….. an air cooled VW bug. Recently we found a vintage 1969 bug […]
Read more "Meet the CABOSE"After a beautiful drive south from Kamloops through farming country to the Okanagan Region we are now camped in Bear Creek Provincial Park. It’s situated on the shore of Okanagan Lake directly across from the city of Kelowna on its east shore. To be honest we were a little disappointed regarding the size of Kelowna […]
Read more "The Okanagan Valley"As we travel south we are slowly shedding our clothing. We lost our long johns at Liard River Hot Springs, we stopped wearing socks yesterday and it starting to look like t-shirt and shorts weather tomorrow. It actually hit +65 at mid day today as we passed through Cashe Creek. We are currently camped along […]
Read more "On Our Way to the Okanagan Valley"Denise and I have driven the Alaskan highway many times in our lives. But today while driving southbound through Whitehorse we realized it was Denise’s 50th anniversary of her fist time driving up with her family. In 1964 she was 11 and sat in the backseat of their 1964 Plymouth Belvedere station wagon behind her […]
Read more "Driving The Alaskan Hwy ……..Now and Then"We are Tim and Denise Taylor and after more then 41 years of living and working in Alaska together we are about to begin a new chapter in our lives. Oct 1, 2014 marked the beginning of our new life style of leaving Alaska in the winter months and traveling in the “lower 48” and […]
Read more "The Adventure Begins"
gone with the dogs 