The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"

This web page documents our travels in our RV we have named the "Dog House" Leaving Ontario June 26th 2005 on a year long trip to the Yukon, Alaska, BC then south to Utah, Arizona and Texas The Crew: Captain Zaphod the dog, Helm: Ed, Cook: Frances NOTE: this website is best seen with 1024x768 or higher resolution screen See the milestone dates in right side column to better select archived files

Monday, August 01, 2005

Rainy Season

The sun was shining and the sky was clear this morning. After doing some chores Ed, Zaph and I headed off for some hiking and swimming (Zaph is of course the only one brave enough to swim in Alaska). The first stop was Thunderbird Falls. This was a nice 1 mile hike but the falls were somewhat disappointing. You could see the top half of the falls from the viewing platform and the bottom half from the creek trail. Next stop was Eklutna Lake. Zaph really wanted to go to this park because a picture in the Milepost book showed a golden retriever lying in the lake. Yes, Zaphie got to swim in the lake. We went for a pleasant hike in a gentle rain. We stopped at an store / fast food / rv park / cabin place for an ice cream cone. As we were the only customers we had a nice chat with the women who owned the establishment. She informed us that August is the rainy season in southern Alaska — why didn’t any of the books tell me this? She said the weather will be very mixed – a lot of clouds, a fair bit of rain and some sun.



Mushrooms on the trail to Thunderbird Falls.


More mushrooms


Eklutna Lake

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Date Milestones
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2005:
May 26; leave Ontario
June 02; enter Alberta
June 05; reach Dawson Creek, start of the Alaska/Canadian (Alcan) highway
June 13; Skagway AK
June 21; Reach Dawson City YK
June 24; travel top of World Highway
July 04; Deneli NP AK
July 12; Anchorage AK
Aug 07; return to BC
Aug 29; Vancouver Island
Sept 23; Penticton BC
Oct 14; leave BC heading south
Oct 16; Moab UT
Oct 27; Las vegas NV
Nov 27; Arizona
2006:
Jan 16; Big Bend NP TX
Jan 26; Rio Grande Valley
Mar 01; Port Aransas
Apr 01; San Antonio

Archives

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• October 2005
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• April 2006