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Hello!
We want all of you to know that this is still a functional blog. For the past few months we have been living in an actual house & the trailer has stayed parked.
With spring & summer slowly making a come back in Alaska we are preparing for another travel trailer summer. Hopefully we will get to use it more this season & this blog will get the attention it deserves.
Thanks for sticking with us!
-Justin & Sadie
PS. There is a HUGE chance that the ALCAN (Alaska-Canadian Highway) will be a journey for us this summer. Road tripping to our wedding August 4th 2012! If that happens you can expect crazy good things to be posted here.
Guess Who?
Is back to residing in their 39Ft Cross-Roads travel trailer?
Yes, yes we are! Currently parked at Justin's sisters home. Using their electric. No water in the trailer due to rapidly dropping fall/winter temperatures. It's an unorganized disaster as we try to find a home to purchase. We are not giving up on the travel-trailer lifestyle, just modifying it as we go.
Anyway, questions are always welcome. Pictures soon. Posting more soon.
WE'RE BACK to living simply.
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Animals Going Wild!
We are still safe & settled on the Denali Highway.
Justin has spend the last couple of nights staying at the work site camp. It's looking like that will be a regular occurrence for the summer. Which leaves me & the animals in the trailer. Woah, it's a small domestic zoo in there!
Denali & Aurora have both taken off on adventures the last couple of days. Denali disappeared down the road for about 45 minutes. He returned & drank about half a gallon of water. Last night Miss Aurora McKinley decided to take a sprint down to the creek to drink for about 15 minutes. She at least ran back to me to make sure it was okay first. I'm glad they are calming down & getting better about staying close to me without their leashes.
Then there are Collins & Cordova. The cat brats. They seem to think that they are the queens of the trailer. Little do they know there is only one diva in that trailer & it's Justin (kidding!). I'm pretty sure all they do when we are gone is eat, drink & sleep.
Sleeping arrangements. Oh bed time is a party. If your idea of a party includes someone running wildly around your home & then passing out on your pillow. Currently the cats are sleeping in the shower (we are not using it for it's common function at the moment), Aurora is sleeping in the bed with me when Justin is gone, or on the floor in the living area when he is home. Denali has his bed in the garage area. He would be sleeping in the main trailer with the rest of us....but....
The first night Justin was gone I let him into the main area after placing the cats in the shower. I went back out to get Aurora & then...CHAOS! Denali was chasing Cordova every where, hissing, barking & panic was taking over. Finally I herded Mr. Rial Everyone Up Before Bed into the garage & pulled Cordova from her perch on the bedroom TV. I made the cats sleep in the shower that night because they kept hissing at Aurora like she was Satan, she was annoyed.
For now, Denali is in the garage. Aurora sleeps where-ever. The divas are in the shower.
Nobody told me this life was going to be such a circus!
Mountains.
We drove to Cantwell & back last night. More on that in a bit... During our trip we spotted, 5 moose, 2 caribou & bunches of this chubby studs! Porcupines. I absolutely adore them. Especially when they are eating willow trees like this, they look so silly bending the branches & eating. Justin stopped twice for me to snap a photo, unfortunately the lighting wasn't the greatest.
We have officially been living on the Denali Highway for over a week now. Justin is spending his first night out at the work site. I'm taking over the travel trailer living.
Normally, this would not be an issue-but as I mentioned in a previous post the generator is broken. We still do not know what the exact problem is, we have a solution for the current situation. Justin hooked up a "suit-case" generator to our power source, so we start that up every night & it supplies enough power to run the furnace, fridge, chest freezer, water pump & a couple of other items. Now that Justin is going I have to fuel & start the generator myself, attach & detach the propane tank for the furnace as needed.
I also have to fuel the suit case generator out of the tank inside of the trailer. This involves turning a pump on, checking the fuel level, then carrying the generator over to the pump, filling it, returning it to its proper spot & starting it. Then there is the task of pumping fuel from the barrel into the trailer fuel tank...yeah that's happening tomorrow.
I will take pictures of myself attempting to do these things...let's hope I don't break anything. ;)
My daily view.
Taken from the Alpine Creek Lodge deck.
Views from our drive.
Wasilla to the Alpine Creek Lodge on the Denali Highway.
MEMORIZE!
This number...
ST225/75R15
Because it is the number to the tires on the tire. Something a girl needs to know.
Powerful Solution
Due to the generators location on the trailer a huge chunk of time is needed for Justin to be able to take it apart & find the true source of the problem. Then there is the difficulty of getting the parts that will be needed to our location. So, instead of dealing with the hassle of all of that...
Justin sent a "suitcase generator" that he had previously taken out, back from the work site. By plugging it in we should be able to keep the fridge & freezer on, as well as run one heater during the sleeping hours.
This will hold us over until we can get some extra time to get our generator issues solved.
Lets hope I can remember how to hook this thing up...
I'm not even sure where my cell phone is. It's pretty much a $400 alarm clock right now anyway. Lack of cell service is a beautiful thing.
We're Powerless.
The trailer has zero power. The generator runs but there is not a power supply to anything. Justin is pretty sure the brushes went out. ugh.
He is going to take a better look when he gets back from work since we didn't discover the problem until 10:30 last night.
It was a cool evening, with no heat. Getting up at 5AM was rough. I defiantly had to pep myself up to get out from underneath the covers.
Denali Highway Facts
135 miles long, connecting Paxson on the Richardson Highway with Cantwell Junction on the Parks Highway.
436 mile loop from Fairbanks
600 mile loop from Anchorage
The road is only open from mid-May to October 1st
Primary a gravel road, over 100 miles are graded gravel. It is paved for 3 miles on the west end and 21 miles on the east end.
The road was completed in 1957 to allow motorists access to Denali National Park. The highway was then practically abandoned in 1972 when the George Parks Highway, which is paved opened. The GPH linked Anchorage & Fairbanks directly with the park
Now the road is primarily used by hunters & fisherman to get into the back country.
The BLM (Bureau of Land Management) lists 27 Points of Interest in the Denali Highway BLM Recreation Guide. Mentioned are the Alaska Mountain Range, Susitna River, Nenana River & the Kettle Lakes. Also listed are natural land forms.
Palsas-A small dome-like frost mound that is usually 10 to 20 feet high & containing peet.
Eskers-A glacial feature, a sinuous ridge of silt, sand, gravel & cobblestones that were carried & deposited by a stream that flowed within a glacier, confined by walls of ice.
Taiga-In northern areas the growing season is a short & often cool one. The winters are long, & very cold. The trees that survive in these conditions have stunted growth caused by permafrost, climactic conditions, elevation exposure & other factors. They are boreal forests, called taiga. These forests are dominated by spruce trees.
There are many activites listed by the BLM for the Denali Highway as well. Camping, hiking, fishing, sightseeing, bicycling, & canoeing/floating.
*We are at mile 68 at the Alpine Creek Lodge. Hopefully we will be able to drive the road the rest of the way through to Paxson.*
Vegetation sampler.
Justin during trailer set up at the lodge.
