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After a few months out on the road in some beautiful yet unpopulated places, the Eco Womb Tour arrived in the big city of Calgary for a week and discovered some cool places within the big city.
As we started down the Icefields Parkway, I was excited to see what was in store for us. Jasper had been amazing, and even though the Parkway was known to be even more spectacular, it was hard to see what could be better. We only spent several hours on the road, but those were unforgettable.
Once we arrived in Whitehorse, after being in the wilds for several days, we hadn’t planned to do much. But, knowing us, we found a way to be active.
While the seasons changed, we headed back south on the Alaska Highway. From Fairbanks we made the drive out to Delta Junction, where we stopped at the end of the Alaska Highway, and the town of Tok before crossing back into Canada.
The rain had just stopped. The colors were popping, like bubbles at a kid’s birthday party. The road stretched out before us invitingly, beckoning us down the path to see what was around the next curve.
We had been in Alaska for two months. We had seen the rainforests, glaciers, and rugged coastline of the Kenai Peninsula. Now, with summer over and the days shrinking, me and my family headed north into Interior Alaska to experience the brief autumn of the Far North. First stop? The small town of Talkeetna, AK.
We started out in the morning hours cruising across the bay towards Gull Rock. Almost immediately the captain heard on the radio that a whale was in the area, and the whole boat slowed down to look for it.
After a fun-filled week in Seward, the Eco Womb Tour was ready to move on to our next adventure. As we were getting ready to leave, we heard that they had a spot open for us. Super excited, we drove down the Sterling Highway to Soldotna in a hurry.
After spending a week in Girdwood, we had been looking ahead at places to go and due to there being no available campgrounds we were considering going straight to Seward or Cooper Landing. But I found a small place to pull off and camp situated right on a beautiful shimmering pond.
We came to Girdwood with one thing on our mind: Hiking. The small but charming ski town of Girdwood is surrounded by beautiful, snow-capped mountains.
After a month of nearly constant travel all the way up the Alaska Highway, we got a little burnt out. So when we made it to Anchorage, the biggest city in Alaska(and the biggest city this far north for thousands of miles), we decided to take it easy.
After many long days of travel, the Eco Womb Tour made it to the border of Alaska!
We had already driven over 1,000 miles on our trip, but we were still a ways from our goal: Alaska. So we continued moving north, starting from Watson Lake, YT.
The Eco Womb has headed north on the Alaska Highway!
After starting off our Canadian experience right in Waterton National Park, we moved right on up the highway towards Calgary.
The Eco Womb has finally gone international! In the first leg of our Alaska Trip we visited Waterton Lakes National Park, just across the border from Glacier.
Last month the Eco Womb Tour visited Southern Utah for the first time, exploring Zion National Park, Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, and other amazing places. On our way there, we got pretty hyped to go explore but wondered where we would stay.
A mountain. A volcano. A story. Hidden in the backbone of the Sierra Nevada, Lassen Volcanic National Park is an amazing combination of extremes. Hot and cold. High and low. Big and small. The moment you stop into the park, you are immersed in a variety of wildlife and a sense of how small humans really are compared to this world.
The desert seems to stretch on almost forever, the mountains bare, the riverbeds dried up. As you follow the road winding up, up, up, you enter almost a new world. Huge rocks rise out of the ground like giant fists. Shrubs cover the dry ground. The sky seems to be ten times bigger. Lizards scuttle through the cracks in the rocks. And Joshua Trees reach up into the sky like open arms.
The Sonoran Desert is a complex, unique ecosystem. Spreading across southern Arizona for miles, vast yet not empty. The crowning jewel of the Sonoran Desert is the massive, long-lived saguaro cactus. Tall and many-armed, it is an iconic symbol of the American Southwest.
The wind blows over the desert landscape, howling through the canyons and lashing the grass with fury. Dust and sand cover the ground. Spiky cacti grows in massive numbers. Snakes slither and lizards jump underneath twisted trees. And from afar, it seems like a great wave of stone looms above the dusty floor of the Chihuahuan desert.
The sun rises over a dry, barren landscape. A mule deer roams through the hills, nibbling at the dusty stalks of grass, and a hawk soars over the ridges, catching the air currents as they swoop over the hillsides. Bats spiral out of a hole in the ground, searching for their nightly dose of insects. A nocturnal ringtail explores the underground world of darkness in search of food. Crystal-like cave formations, extremely delicate to the touch, rise from the floor and hang from the ceiling like needles and curtains.
Yellowstone is unique yet unstable. It is a land of geysers and boiling hot springs, mud pots and red bacteria mats. It is a land full of all kinds of green life in the summer, and frozen under deep snow in the winter. It is a land with a spirit to it.
My favorite place in the park was definitely the high country along Going-to-the-Sun Road. The wildflowers were all in bloom, and the animals were abundant and visible. Mountains surround us, jagged and sheer against the blue sky. One moment, the sun is shining and the next clouds darken the horizon, and shreds of rain fall like forks on the cliffs and meadows.
After a few days in Fort Nelson, we continued driving south. Our RV was having a rough time on the many hills we had to traverse on the last leg of the Alaska Highway.