The people we've met on the road

We have met some pretty cool people in our travels. Sometimes at a campground, sometimes along the Chilkoot trail and sometimes as we are exploring different areas. A few of these people are also blogging (and gave us their websites) so if you just can’t get enough of our blog and want to follow some other travel blogs, here are a few of the people we've met (I will try to keep updating as we go).

Mackenzies on the road

I feel like the Mackenzies are doing all of those back roads that Mike and I sometimes think about doing but then think about how long of a drive it would be to do. We met Darrin and Melissa at a recreation site near Stewart BC and then again ran into them at another rec site further up highway 37. They did northern Yukon and Alaska first (whereas we focused on the south) so I have definitely been checking out where they’ve been (and what they have to say about it) to see if these are some of the places we want to tackle. They have some pretty amazing pictures of both the Dempster and the Dalton highways (the 2 highways that head north to the Arctic ocean) but I still don’t know if we will follow in their tire tracks.

Traveling cows

I had a brief chat with Sandra and Hanson while Mike and Dawson were going to the summit of King’s Throne in Klaune National Park. Maverick and I decided to turn back about halfway up as heights aren’t really my thing and the loose rock was making Maverick nervous (okay, okay it was making me nervous). Anyway I was hanging out with Maverick at the day use area reading a book and seeing if I could spot Dawson and Mike on the mountain. Sandra and Hanson came over and we started chatting about our travels and giving recommendations to each about what to see in our respective next legs of the journeys. While we were chatting away, a gentleman came over and asked us to please be quiet as he was trying to film and our conversation was ending up in the audio. I am assuming he was a video/you tube channel blogger and I definitely didn’t ask for his website.

The Dangerz
We met Brian and Jen in Valdez. They were parked at the wharf with their van door open so Mike couldn’t help but look into their van and see their folding kayaks (and comment on them). After both human and dog introductions, we learned these guys have been on the road for 6 years!! Their website has beautiful pictures of the places they have been and their van is not only functional but looks like it is out of interior design book for vans (if such a thing exists).

Dejala
We met Marie and her partner in a campground in Tok, Alaska.  They gave us great travel tips (especially for travelling in Mexico).  Marie is an avid traveller with a ton of experience (I think she was on her 12th country just this year)