"Alcan, Tok, Haines to Skagway to the Cassier Highway."

"End of the Alcan Highway " Sam was attacked by a giant Mosquito. Delta Junction is the northern most end of the Alcan Highway and it is the last town you visit on your way back to Tok from Fairbanks. Tok is the cross road to Anchorage or Fairbanks. We went down on July 28th to Mt. LOGAN. Yeah, I did see a Mountain with our name. It is the largest mountain in Canada and the 2nd largest mountain in North America. We saw more beautiful mountains and fire weed. The Haines highway is probably the most beautiful road one could travel because of the beautiful glaciers along the way and everywhere there are waterfalls. Here is where we saw our first Puffin birds with their orange beaks. They swim in order but the minute you want to take a picture of them they break up their lines and swim everywhere. It's as if they knew we were trying to take a picture of them. We saw a grizzly in the bush but couldn't get a picture. Here is where grizzlies come down every night from the hills to get their fill of salmon and the visitors come to see the bear. On our way to Skagway, we saw a moose again, crossing right in front of our truck. When we got to Skagway we saw a beautiful bay and here is where you see the Cruise ships that dock in Skagway. Another fun and very famous Saloon is called the Red Onion Saloon. Here "working girls" had their "cribs" on the second floor. When she completed her business and was ready to see another client she dropped a small ball, with her number on it down a shoot to the bar tender and he sent up the next "John". In those days the ladies were literally worth their weight in gold. A dance hall girls companionship for the winter could actually be bought for her weight in gold so the ladies would sew lead shot into their undergarments and into the hems of their dresses. The ladies were weighed then paid in gold to spend one winter with the miner. More gold was mined from the miners than from the earth. The only two ways most women in the gold fields could make money were to be a lady of the night or a seamstress and being a seamstress did not pay much. Here is where we went to learn about the Chilcoot Pass and how the gold rushers climbed the pass to a point where they could build boats and sailed down the Yukon river to the gold fields. These miners had their work cut out for them. As we drove up from Skagway the road took us 1hour for 13 miles . It was very steep. From there we drove to a town called Carcross and took the Old Alaska Highway back to the main Alcan. Then we went down the Cassier Highway which was about 350 miles of highway liberally sprinkled with sections of gravel. Towns along this road are very far and few in between, you might not see a soul or car for a long time.