Ever wonder what it’s really like on the Alaskan Highway? In this video, we drive the full road to Alaska from start to finish, showing you as we go, what to expect on the Alaskan Highway! Starting at Dawson Creek, Canada, the drive is 1422 miles to Delta Junction, Alaska! The Alaskan Highway is the only road that connects Alaska, The Last Frontier, with the lower 48. Along the way to Alaska, we are going to show you the ups and downs, great places to stop, and beautiful scenery.
THE SEAFOOD IN ALASKA IS AMAZING! We went to many restaurants that didn’t make it to this video so be sure to subscribe to watch our ALASKA FOOD TOUR which will come out when we finish out Alaska Road Trip.
Before we start our Alaska road trip, we must first tackle this long, tough ride north. We are Meghan and Matt and we set a goal to travel 1 Million Miles! We are undertaking the road trip of a lifetime to Alaska and back to the US. On the way to Alaska we are going to soak up all of that Canada has to offer. If you want to follow our journey North to Alaska and back down through Vancouver, consider subscribing to our Channel. This is a bucket list road trip for us and we can’t wait to bring you along.
ON THE WAY HERE:
Watch our drive through Canada (Banff + More!) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNPNGWDhj-pJfH1mld9uMf0fh4o8ngC3d
Miles Traveled: 24,953.40
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WHO AM I️ WATCHING?
We’re Meghan & Matt and we’re on a journey to travel 1,000,000 miles! We’ve been traveling full time in our self-converted van for over 10 months and have seen and done so many incredible and life-changing things. We decided that we wanted to make travel our life, full time! So w will be documenting all our travel miles along the way and hope you come along with us!
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Mile 0, Dawson Creek
02:40 The Gas Situation
05:10 The Bug Situation
07:01 Beautiful Campsite on Muncho Lake
09:21 Things to do on the Alaskan Highway
15:34 I️ need a shower so bad (an original song)
17:05 Whitehorse, Canada
17:42 I️ need a shower so bad (reprise)
19:25 Kluane National Park of Canada
20:38 Crossing the American Border
21:44 Alaskan Highway Complete!
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What a fun drive made even better by Meghan’s singing
This drive was taken place just days before the washout north of Laird Hot Springs. We have heard that they have created a detour while repairing the road.
Detail nerd here: Now you've got me pondering if "Alaskan Highway" means the same thing as "Alaska Highway."
To me, "Alaskan" being something of/in Alaska, but "Alaska Highway" means highway to Alaska.
I enjoy the fun nuances of the weird English language, and how similar words have subtle differences.
But for the highway name itself, it seems that the sign at Mile-0 in Dawson Creek is the standard wording: "Alaska Highway"
PS: I am enjoying your video series immensely 🙂
I love that the person ahead paid for your stuff at Tim’s! I always do it when I can and it happens to me a lot haha
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Cool! Great memories created on this leg of the journey! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Wow what a hell of a ride! Thanks for the details on your journey, great information. I know it was boring for most of the trip but your video made it seems kinda of fun, especially with Meghan's singing! Great job guys!
Ok you guys had me cracking up with the old gas pumps and paying inside. Which is how it was until 5 minutes ago.. 😂😂 That was a long long ride but as usual you made it fun!
You guys look like your having lots of fun & yes we have colorful money.
OH MY GOSH!! Friggin Hamilton starts up most times I plug in my phone too. I guess because alphabetically it is first in the library. (Eric – Defining Adventure)
I Live in Alaska
Wow, mindblowing
The thumbnail is inquisitively similar to Kara and Nate, was that on purpose?
street of Ho Chi Minh city (Vietnam) thank you for sharing the video it's amazing.👍👍
Don’t you just love CANADA?! ❤️🇨🇦 Besides getting cheap yummy treats from Timmy’s, you get randomly surprised by people paying your meal! #OhCANADA!🇨🇦
Sooo exciting!! Congrats on this epic road trip!! ❤️
Lol there's sooooo many bugs on our RV as well lol. We are currently around the Kootenay/Radium Hot springs area. Muncho Lake is ssooo pretty wow!
Thats some heavy duty driving.
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Great Video!!! I am about 4 videos behind! 👏👏👏👏👏❤️😎👍
1:00 Anyone who has road tripped all the way across Canada to Alaska knows the near spiritual position Timmies occupies in the road trip hierarchy. If you know… you know. If you don't… no words exist to convey the meaning. It's really very Zen. 3:10 That's another important thing. It's not like the states where you have a gas station on every corner. When you find a gas station… fill up. Even if you have 3/4 of a tank.
You saw the same sheep I did…that's cool. I really enjoyed this drive except the road (it was terrible). I did not go in any of the water, my body does not like cold.
`Sometimes, when driving heavy trucks in outback Australia, one of the 20+ kangaroos that the truck hits and kills every night……….one will actually explode on the 'bull bar' and make a really smelly mess. During grass hopper plagues……they run off the truck as a liquid slurry……..and pool on the fuel tanks.
You guys are wonderful
Just came across your channel, I really like it, you have another subscriber1
Did you try Juneau Alaska its very Nice there i heard. Never been there but i will one day
How do I get my filipino wife who doesn't like traveling to sign off on this trip?
whats ur nationality? Love this video. 💕
First off, thoroughly enjoyed your sharing of your trip. Nice camper van too.
We followed the same route you took (twice actually, this summer, roundtrip early June to latter August and previously in June 2018).
We even filled up at that self serve large metal box gas station. We left two signs @ the Sign Post Forest – the local hardware store sold small pieces of wood to create your own sign and the Sign Post Forest office gave us a drill and screws to install our signs.
We did experience the detour on our return from the section of the Alcan that washed out (in early July I seem to recall).
And those potholes are no joke either, we tried to avoid them, but a few found us…😢
Your video was awesome. If you get the chance again, check out the Kenai peninsula.
Next time, spray some PAM cooking spray on your hood, or any frontal area, to keep the bugs from sticking. It makes them easy to wash off.
They DO have a shower at Laird River Hot Spring, it is at the Bathroom/Changing House at the Hot Spring.
The AMERICAN Border??? You were in America all the time. Canada is in North America, just like the US is, they are both in America. It is the Unites States of America Border, or US Border for short.
Nice number
You guys should really enjoy the Kenai Peninsula
WE DROVE THE ALCAN IN 1974 TOTALLY GRAVEL EXCEPT WHITEHORSE YUKON FOR 2 MILES. BY THE TIME WE LEFT THE DIRT AT THE ALASKA BORDER YOU COULD NOT TELL THE MAKE OR COLOR OF THE CAR……1969 FORD GALAXY
You are obsessed beith showers. I went two weeks hiking the PCT without showers. No showers. You were in a Hot Springs. Time to move on.
You guys had it wrong. Whitehorse is in Yukon, not in British Columbia. Yukon is also not in British Columbia because it's a territory.
You only need a front license plate if the state you're registered in requires it. I had a Tennessee license plate while living in California at one point. California requires both plates, but I never complied because it's not a Tennessee requirement, which also helped get me out of a couple tickets from red-light cameras over the years 🙃 Other states, like Nevada, only require a front license plate if your vehicle has the ability to hold it, which is why I removed the holder from my truck when I lived/registered my vehicle there. Problem solved 👌