Heading South

I spent Monday checking out the Anchorage Museum and driving on some scenic routes around the city. I saw some beautiful mountains even though the weather was rainy and foggy.

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In the process though my car started shitting out flat tires like a dog with unwanted puppies. I was looking for the headquarters of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program when I heard the sound of a flat tire again. HAARP is a top secret military research program dedicated officially to inducing and studying atmospheric phenomena. It has also been accused of weather manipulation. I'll let you decide for yourself. The clouds around HAARP were unlike those I have seen before.

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The Anchorage Museum is full of information about the gold rushes and oil rushes of Alaska's past. I found it interesting that the Trans-Alaska pipeline was announced in 1969 well before the energy crisis of the 1970's and also well before it had regulatory approval from the U.S. and State of Alaska. Many millions of dollars of pipeline was ordered well before any approvals had been granted. That's quite an expense unless the approval is already guaranteed somehow... Hmm... Also they had some beautiful paintings of Alaska. I liked this one:

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Driving back through the Yukon I found the weather much improved over that I experienced my first time through. I stopped by a crystal clear mountain lake to take some photos.

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While I was down at the lake, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police car pulled up behind my car as it was parked illegally on the roadside. The officer looked around for me and asked "Is this your car!?" I said yes expecting to be yelled at for parking illegally on the roadside and probably fined. He said "Is everything OK?!" I said yes, and he left. I wish more all my police interactions were so friendly...

Now I am in Whitehorse, Yukon, which is one of my favorite places of the whole journey. It's just big enough to have everything I need here, and just small enough to avoid getting a big city vibe. I'll be loading up on vegetable oil here soon and heading out to drive until I don't want to drive any more. I'll likely take the route through Saskatchewan and Manitoba this time, and if I make it all the way, I'll have been to every Canadian province except Newfoundland/Labradour.