Vanuit Heerenveen willen wij iedereen gezellige feestdagen en een gelukkig, gezond en avontuurlijk 2015 wensen!
From our home in The Netherlands we want to wish everybody a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and adventurous 2015!
Desde nuestra casa en Holanda, queremos desear a todos un Feliz Navidad/Buon Natale y mucho prosperidad, salud y aventura en 2015!
Mooi/ beautiful
When we were in Anchorage, we thought we were going to fly home from Seattle because we thought we wouldn’t have enough time to go further South, for example to San Francisco. Continue reading
We had planned on going further South from Banff, to Waterton NP and then cross the US border to go through Glacier NP to get to the coast. But as we did before; we changed our minds again. Continue reading
The Icefields Parkway is a 230 km/138 mile long road through the Rockies, from Jasper to Lake Louise (or the other way around) and leads you by an enormous icefield (Columbia Icefield), about 100 glaciers and lakes with beautiful colors.
After more than 3 weeks of hardly any cycling, being back on the bikes took a little getting used to again. The first day was a hard one; 160 kms (100 miles) from Prince Rupert to Terrace.
And again we took the ferry. Whittier is close to Anchorage, so we could cycle over pretty easily. But to get there, you have to go through a long, narrow tunnel which is built for trains. You’re not allowed to cycle through, so you have to find another way to get through. Continue reading
Camper
So, we had the opportunity to explore the Kenai peninsula by campervan, south of Anchorage. Such luxury because of the fridge and because we could take as much stuff (food) as we wanted. We didn’t have to cycle with it, so it didn’t matter if something was big or heavy. Continue reading
About 125 miles (200 km) south of Fairbanks is Denali National Park, in size one of the largest national parks in the US and the most visited in Alaska. Everybody who visits Alaska, visits Denali (too) and it’s always very busy because it’s a short season; from mid-May till mid-September.
Denali
