Ed and Sonntag in northern Alaska August 21, 2000

This blog is about part 1 of my 20,000+ mile car-camping trip with my dogs from DC to Alaska via Labrador. Part 1, in 2011, was to the end of the road in northeastern North America in Labrador and then on to Quebec and Ontario, 7609 miles. Part 2, which took place in 2012, picked up where Part 1 left off in Ontario and was supposed to extend to Banff and Jasper National Parks in the Canadian Rockies, but Leben, my male German shepherd, became paralyzed on the trip so we cut it short. We will finish the journey in 2013, when we will return to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

Ed and Sonntag in northern Alaska August 21, 2000

Photo by Richard Olsenius, National Geographic, January 2002

One goal of the trip is to make it to at least this site, which is about 130 miles south of Prudhoe Bay (the Arctic Ocean) and 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle). Click here to see the Google Earth photo of this site. Check out the coordinates and go visit it on Goggle Earth.