On this day 50 years ago, the Alaska Highway was officially opened to military traffic, only 8 months after work began. Here’s how Wired reports on the anniversary: Until the early 1940s, Alaska was a neglected U.S. territory. The Klondike gold rush of the 1880s and ’90s was a distant memory, and oil had not yet […]
A Ribbon of Highway
The drive from Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson goes through 300 miles of forest. We have a new appreciation for the term “ribbon of highway.” At one point along that ribbon of highway, we hit the 2000 mile mark! We ate chocolate to celebrate. I also found out that the monument marking “Mile Zero” […]
