Another Detour - Haines, Alaska

Another Detour - Haines, Alaska

We were back on the Alaska Highway in Tok (rhymes with poke), Alaska and the obvious thing to do was to either head north to Fairbanks or west to Anchorage, but… there’s always a ‘but’. I’d recently read a brochure about Haines, Alaska… another pene-exclave community about 438 miles south… way out of the way, BUT it was on the Lynn Canal (the longest and deepest fjord in North America), it looked like a very picturesque community AND we could possibly catch an express catamaran sightseeing trip to Juneau from there. Why not?

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And we waited…

And we waited…

The hours lingered on. More cars, RVs, semis, and vans joined the queue. We’d go out and check the river, talk with fellow travels (Do you think the water’s going down?) and come back to Blanche to read or write for a while longer. We had lunch, then dinner, then popcorn. By around 10PM, we were pretty convinced that we weren’t going anywhere this night.

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Blue View - How to Use Bear Spray

Blue View - How to Use Bear Spray

Now that we’re in grizzly country, it’s time to figure out how to use the Bear spray we brought with us. Here’s a few tips the instructions might have have mentioned before we tried it ourselves…

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