Author Archives: Jim@HiTek

A couple weeks ago a moose was wandering around the park munching on new buds on the low trees. These animals are huge! The one that’s hanging around this year looks like a two year old that was hanging around … Continue reading →

The BP World Ice Carving event has come and gone and it’s time for me to post some pictures of the ice carvings. It was quite the event with 10’s of thousands of visitors this year but since it’s likely … Continue reading →

It’s a nice sunny day…so I thought I’d get some pictures of what’s right outside the building. But first, some other stuff. The gal in this picture is a heavy equipment operator here during the Ice Carving event every year. … Continue reading →

Here’s a few pictures of the ice park in January 2011. We do get sunshine but you can see from the snow not every day. We were given a bunch of used but newer to us Dell computers around this … Continue reading →

After Whitehorse, the roads turned really nice. Light traffic and most of the frost heaves I had to contend with in ’07 were fixed. The big construction project was almost done so it didn’t take anytime at all to get … Continue reading →

Finally, I’m approaching Whitehorse. It’s May 20th, 2010 in this travel saga, and I spend the day not thinking about much of anything. Didn’t bother to get around to taking any pictures since I was getting road weary. I get … Continue reading →

Sorry for the long lead times between posts. No excuse. Just ‘Sorry’. I have several days of nothing important to do so I’ll try to hurry things along. In real time, it’s now a couple days before the holidays in … Continue reading →

It’s now May 19th and I’m still heading due north through Canada. It takes 5-6 days from the Washington border to Fairbanks. As each day on the road passes, the traffic gets thinner, the towns smaller and further apart, and … Continue reading →

The next morning, May 18th, I leave Clinton around 8am and head on to Hixon. The countryside is reminiscent of the western section of Washington, before you cross through the Cascades to the west slope. The weather was comfortable, with … Continue reading →

It’s now May 16th, and I leave Oroville on my way to Alaska. I’ve made this trip a couple of times and this time I’ve planned and timed a route that will  take me to some different towns along the … Continue reading →