Soul on the Road
Photo by: Sarah E. Reynolds
The author, at right, with her human and canine companions
Travels of two women and a German Shepherd towing a small trailer to Denali National Park, Alaska. Adventures on the road, reflections and photos from the trip.
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The way life should be
By Sarah Reynolds - Jul 03I think I left us on the way from Ohio to Pennsylvania. We camped in Berwick, Pa., Thursday night, and drove to my brother's in Canton, Conn., ...
Minnesota hospitality
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 27Monday, Katie took us to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, a beautiful garden affiliated with the University of Minnesota. We took a tram ride ...
Rockies redux
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 22Tuesday we drove from Grande Cache to Lake Louise in Alberta. We had been very happy to discover the lovely, well-kept Grande Cache Municipal ...
Amazing cinnamon buns and tennis balls
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 20We left Toad River with regrets Sunday morning, and headed south. For about half the day, we were still in the mountains, but then we returned to ...
The land of the midnight sun
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 16For a while now, Maureen has been lamenting the fact that, although she had always wanted to see the midnight sun, and we were now in a place ...
Denali stands above the rest
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 14I'm glad to say I haven't fallen off the edge of the earth; I've just been without a cell signal for a while. I'm back with a giant blog post ...
A visit to (the) North Pole
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 09No, it's not really that North Pole -- the one where a certain portly giver of presents lives when he's not flying around on a reindeer-powered ...
Capital of the Yukon
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 07We drove to Whitehorse, capital of the Yukon Territory, Monday, working our way up into the mountains again. Once, when we stopped for gas, there ...
A bit of heaven on earth
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 05Having missed a day, I must catch up on our last couple of days' travels. Friday we drove from Jasper to Dawson Creek and Saturday we drove from ...
The Icefields Parkway
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 02Wednesday we headed out of Banff and got back on Alberta's 93 North to go to Jasper. The part of 93 we were on is known as the Columbia Icefields ...
Beginning to feel the pull
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 29Home is beginning to exert its pull on us -- or on me, at least -- as we make our way east. We said a happy/sad goodbye to Katie and to Ellen and ...
High plains drive and a gracious welcome
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 25It's been some time since I wrote, mostly because we have had a few very long days in the car -- driving across the plains of Montana and North ...
Canadians, living up to their reputation
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 21The Alaska Highway, or Alcan Highway, as it is sometimes still known, was built during World War II by a crew of some 27,000 soldiers and civilians...
A nice place to come back to
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 19Thursday night we spent at Johnson's Crossing in Teslin, Yukon. A perfectly adequate RV park, but not especially scenic and rather noisy. After ...
By the shores of Kluane Lake
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 16Monday we camped in a park in Glenallen, Alaska, in the Tolsana Wilderness area. Our site was beneath pine trees right beside a gurgling stream. ...
Ready or not, Denali, here we come!
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 10We spent Thursday getting ready for our sojourn in Denali, where we will have no hookups, just what we bring with us. First thing, I called ...
All mountains are rocky, but not all are Rockies
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 08Well, this is embarrassing. We looked at a map of the Yukon yesterday, and it turns out that at least since Saturday, I have been identifying the ...
Stone sheep and dusty roads
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 07Our drive Sunday took us from Toad River, British Columbia, to Watson Lake, Yukon Territory. We drove through more of the Canadian Rockies, past ...
Jasper encounters
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 03Our day of rest Thursday did not start out very restfully. After some debate as to whether to take Cushla with us into town while we did laundry, ...
Buckle up, or pay the price
By Sarah Reynolds - Jun 01After a long day in the car Monday, we took a while getting into gear Tuesday, so it was early afternoon before headed into Banff to do a couple ...
