The roadshow heads north again....

Welcome to my new story board! T'is my hope that this format will be more accessible to my dear friends and family...

I must first bring you all up to date. After our great adventure to Inuvik, trucking life settled into a steady routine of trips back and forth to Ohio. We had great luck with the weather and any minor white knuckle events have already drifted out of memory!

So it was with great excitement that we accepted a load to Haines Alaska. Of course the first question is just were is Haines Alaska? (Cause neither one of us knew) It is on the Alaskan Panhandle around the corner from Skagway and just north of Juneau (100km). Hmmm we would be traveling on the "Stewart Cassiar Hwy" which would be new to both of us and of course somehow wiggling our way down the panhandle. Google maps comes in handy right about now. Our route would be highway 1 to Cache Creek then hwy 97 to Prince George, left on hwy 16 to Kitwanga then north on hwy 37 "Stewart Cassiar Hwy". Highway 37 connects up with the Alcan Hwy running up to Whitehorse. We would stay on the Alcan till we reached Haines Junction still in the Yukon. We would turn south on Highway 3 crossing out of the Yukon and back into British Columbia and crossing the border into Alaska about 42 miles north of Haines.

Now that is the route and one can't really get lost cause there just aren't many other roads a person could take! I know I expected we would see some pretty spectactular scenery if the weather was in our favour, but I could not have imagined just how much spectactular one can see!

Our Haines adventure began with hooking up to a "chaisis" which held a "Can". More trucking jargon that I had never run into. A wee bit of back ground hear for all the unintiates like myself. If you have ever seen cargo ships or trains with what looks like transport vans all stacked up. Those vans are called "cans" and because they have no wheels they are loaded unto to a "chasis" sooooo In short we would be hauling a small version of this to Haines.


All are trips begin in Courtenay and when we have product we must take the Sea Span Barge, which is a bare bones container carrier with no amenities and as the pic shows not much for safety!!