Midnight Sun

We’ve arrived in Alaska having driven 5,516 miles from our home in Vermont. We are struggling to adapt to the 24 hours of sunshine. The sun “sets” at 12 pm and skims the horizon for a couple of hours before rising at 2AM. It’s never dark. We narrowly escaped being trapped in Dawson City by another out of control forest fire, we were the last vehicle across the Yukon on the ferry that before they closed Top the World highway. The scenery has been spectacular.

Loading equipment to cross the mighty Yukon to fight the fires on our route.
A fire near our route approaching our path
A warning before we cross the Yukon River
Top of the World Highway, it follows the mountain tops for a hundred miles above tree line
Top of the World highway heading to Alaskan border,
The fire we approached

This photo was taken at 11PM

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