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Free travel tips and advice for seeing the Yukon, Alaska, and anywhere else
About Me, Cliff Brody -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
A short biography of Cliff Brody and what made him decide to make his 2006 road trip travel to Alaska, Yukon, and western US
User's Guide for Using This Website -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
How to Use this site for free travel information, advice and tips for going to Alaska, Yukon
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How to Plan your dream trip and know what travel and trip to Alaska, Yukon, and other places will cost-budgeting
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How you can use my lessons learned and do's and don'ts - AND YOURS! - -from past trips and traveling to make sure your next trip is a success, whether to Alaska, Yukon, or anywhere else
About My Personal Travel Style -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
How does Cliff Brody like to travel-how this mattered for his dream trip to Alaska, Yukon, and other places in Europe and elsewhere
Alaska and Back: Did The Guides Work?
Getting Ready to Leave
How Cliff Brody planned his first ever over-the-road trip to Above the Arctic Circle, where he began his planning process, and the issues to resolve that emerged as the most important
How Cliff Brody settled on the route for traveling by car, over the road, to the Northwestern US, British Columbia, Lake Louise, Prince George, The Yukon, and Alaska
Why Make This Trip At All? -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
What motivated Cliff Brody to make a 10,000 mile over-the-road trip from Washington DC to Alaska in a 6 year old BMW; why that matters to ANYONE who wants to take a trip that most others wouldn't even think about!
What Actually Happened
...Going TO The Arctic
Aug 9-12 - Heading West -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
How Cliff Brody's Yukon-Alaska trip began, the first VERY long day on the road, from Washington DC to Fargo, North Dakota, and two splendid days after that in Glacier Park, Montana and on to beautiful Banff and Lake Louise in Canada
The route takes Cliff Brody north to upper British Columbia, via the spectaculer Icefields Highway and the Columbia Glacier
The route opens up to Northern British Columbia, and great, beautiful surprises along the Icefields Highway and at the Columbia Glacier
Aug 18 - Dawson Creek in the Yukon -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
Tour Driver Cliff Brody reaches Dawson Creek in the Yukon, where the Alaska Highway begins, and joins every other tourist who ever passed through town in taking a picture of ''Mile Zero''!
The planned route takes Cliff Brody onto the Alaska Highway, through frontier towns separated by many miles of uninhabited forest land, stunning mountain scenery, wild animals taking their own vacation on the roadway, wonderful good eatin' along the way, and a fabulous stay at Bombay Peggy's in the Yukon's way-north Dawson City. Crossing the Yukon River, Brody then begins one of the most exciting, scenery-spectacular legs of the whole trip, driving literally along the top of the world on the aptly-named The Top of the World Highway, from Dawson City, across the world's highest land entry point into the United States, through Chicken, Alaska, and finally back to the Alaska Highway at Tok, Alaska. There are no more majesterial sights to be seen anywhere else!
This day sees Cliff Brody reaching the end of the Alaska Highway at Delta Junction, Alaska, discovering a stuffed Grizzly neatly displayed in the local supermarket, and moving on to urban Fairbanks.
After a day's drive carrying him north along one of the world's most dramatic roads, Cliff Brody crosses the Arctic Circle and continues north to Coldfoot Camp with all the truckers, and more than a few cruise ship passengers!
...Coming Home FROM The Arctic
Aug 26 - To Denali Park -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
Heading back down South, Cliff Brody passes through Fairbanks, makes his supermarket stop, and then moves on to Denali Park, and the beautifully-situated Earthsong Lodge facing west with an unbroken view of the Denali Range
Aug 27-28 - From Denali to Skagway -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
These two days' journey allows Cliff Brody to see some of Alaska's most majesterial scenery, as he travels south along the Parks Highway skirting Denali Park, east along the Glenn Highway past the startling, glacier-filled Chugach Range to McBride Park, then southeast over breathtaking White Pass to Skagway and his Alaska Ferries' MS Columbia
Aug 29 - After Sitka -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
On Board the Columbia, Cliff Brody (along with his doubtlessly overworked BMW) gets to relax and take in the unforgetable fjords and mountain vistas framing Alaska's intercoastal waterways, and uses the two hour stopover at landlocked Sitka to walk through the town, take in its remarkable history, and marvel over a Fedex truck in center city!
Aug 30 - On Board and in Ketchikan -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
On board the Alaska Ferry Columbia sailing through Alaska's intercoastal waterway, Cliff Brody walks all around Ketchikan, a remarkably vibrant small city with pioneer origins, a vibrant artist's colony, a restored historic district, and a wonderful urban trail and wooden walkway taking you up alongside a rushing Ketchikan Creek cascading down the mountainside right there in the city's center.
Aug 31 - Open Seas -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
On board the Alaska Ferries' Columbia, there he is, Cliff Brody, just plain hanging out as the ship moves southward through the Canadian section of the intercoastal waterway, sunning, chit-chatting, and watching the sea life large and small escorting the boat southward.
Sept 3 - North of Yellowstone -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
The route takes Cliff Brody from Bellingham, Washington, up to Vancouver, and then south and east through Washington State's so-special Cascade Mountains, across northern Idaho, and southeast towards Yellowstone through one of his most favorite routs, Montana's Gallatin Mountain Range - The ''Gallatin Gateway''.
No matter the many times he's seen it, Yellowstone's geysers again thrill Cliff Brody, as does his overnight stay at Yellowstone Park's very special Old Faithful Inn, a dawn walk through Geyser Valley with nary another tourist about, and a chance encounter with the HUGE Grand Geyser as it erupted. The trip then takes Brody, via the not-to-be-missed Canyon of the Yellowstone, east out of the Park to Cooke City, Wyoming, actually named for its founder, turn of the (19th) century New York City financier Jay Cooke, and a historic testament to America's frontier search for gold.
Sept 6-9 - Back in DC -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
The end of a trip of a lifetime comes after the journey's last days carry Cliff Brody across another ''Top of the World Highway'', this one in Wyoming (and worth a drive from anywhere to see), on to Devil's Tower and Sundance Wyoming, and past the breathtaking Missouri River crossing at Chamberlain, South Dakota
Lessons Learned -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
What lessons did Cliff Brody learn from his ambitious over-the-road journey to the northwest US, British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, Alberta, Washington State, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Yellowstone, Glacier Park, Devils Tower and more
The Next Trip?
Where I'm Going and Why -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
My Yukon-Alaska dream trip is but the first of my journeys there. This is why I am going back.
Winter Travel vs Summer -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
Easy to say, harder to do, a trip back to Alaska in wintertime carries its own set of challenges and risks. This list is but a starter...
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Brody's Best Links for Traveling Anywhere -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
This is Cliff Brody's HIGHLY selective list of great resources and websites that will help ANYONE planning a special trip ANYWHERE in the world.
This is Cliff Brody's totally-subjective list of the best websites to use if you are planning a trip to Alaska or the Yukon. Though the emphasis is on making the trip by road, many of these sites will be very useful for traveling there by any means at all!
Cliff Brody's Own ''Best and Worst'' List -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
My hope is that you get a laugh or two from some of the items on this list, and also an idea or two for visiting a special place that you may not have heard of before now.
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Ask Me A Question -- (Dream Travel Trip Anywhere; Yukon-Alaska Road Trip)
This is where you can ask me the most important question you have about the dream trip you would like to take - no matter where you want to go, or how you want to get there.
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