Good morning guys, from the beginning of the Dempster Highway! I hope you're
having a great day! We are pretty excited to be starting this journey because this
is one of Canada has many.... Amazing, epic, priceless, overland adventures! And this
one's relatively new! The Dempster Highway has been around since like 1979
but in 2017 I believe... They opened the stretch of the ITH which is the Inuvik
Tuk highway which takes you up to the Arctic Ocean! The only Road in public
road in North America, where you can drive to the Arctic Ocean!
So that means Canada has sea to sea to sea covered. And that is pretty amazing!
So like I said, we are a few miles up the Dempster and pulled into one of these
gravel quarries from construction of the road....Nice, free peaceful nights to camp!... Ahhh...
You know it is a shame and you pretty much see this everywhere but.... There's
trash! It's just.... Yeah! Damn human nature, mucking up places! I know it's
just a gravel pit but seriously!... And you know that's a decade's old!.. It's time to
introduce one of our co-pilots for this trip, meet Sitka!
Rebecca's mom's Border Collie. He is a very good ten year old boy. The sweetest
soul. Our little Shelby is doing very well!
She's our 17 year old Terrier but Beck's mom came up to Alaska to visit us for
the summer... And she's watching Shelby because this is gonna be a pretty
intense journey and...Mr. Sitka was up for the job!.... Good morning..Good morning.. How are you today?
Got a good night sleep last night?... Yeah...I needed it. It was cold!..Yeah, Beck's fighting off a little cold that
never fails! "Perfect timing" You start an adventure, you catch a cold! Hopefully I
don't follow suit in two days!..I hope so to!...Well in case you're new to our Channel, let
me introduce you to the truck that we're making this journey in. It's a 2007
Mitsubishi Fuso. Four-wheel drive chassis...And it is
perfect for this kind of adventure! We hold 60 gallons of fuel and under the
world's most ideal conditions, we are capable of getting almost 15 miles a
gallon! But I would venture to say we are going to be solid thirteen to fourteen...
Because this is not a high-speed journey.. We'll speed cutting right along!
This truly is an amazing overland journey guys! Just to put things in perspective, if you have
not looked at a map lately and just to see like... For example where Dawson
City is, we are way, way up here in the North Country already! You know, and there's
some irony because... We had to drive through about 600 miles of
Alaskan and Canadian wilderness just to get here for about
550 miles of one-way dirt road wilderness experience!it is
just.... The North Country is humongous guys! And if you have a chance to get up here
during the summer months or if you are on a real adventure.... Winter... You know, jump on it!
We are about mile-marker.... Well kilometer marker, 276 and... Suddenly
in about the last 10 klicks the road has gotten atrocious! I hope this is
short-lived! Prior to that, it was perfect! And we were maintaining like...Somewhere
between 40 and 50 miles an hour usually around 45..Uhhmm...Then all of a sudden we hit
this stretch and there are stones in the road... That just gravel your teeth loose and it's
also gotten quite muddy! Apparently it's been raining here a lot! So...
It'll be interesting to see if this is what we're driving the rest of the way...
Or if it goes back to what we had before... This is gonna get exhausting really fast!
Well the road has gotten a little smoother but we are about to drop into
Eagle Plains.... Somebody looks a little road weary after driving all day long!
You ready for dinner?
I'm not sure but this might be all of the Eagle Plains! I'm not too sure at all!
But.... Let's see....That fuel
There's diesel right there!
Well I guarantee Costco is gonna be cheaper than this fuel!... Yep!
Let's see here.... We just did a fuel stop in Eagle Plains and the fuel was 4
dollars and eighty three US per gallon. So actually not that bad for as far
North as we are! So... We are pushing on and we're kind of undecided as to whether we...
Are going to drive a little further and then stop for the night or stop and make
something to eat!..And Sitka... We're cuddling because I've been driving
all the day..I have to get my...Puppy attention...
Yeah, he wants to stop and eat!
Okay this is a pretty noteworthy landmark in our journey through life and
on this trip! Check it out! We have reached the Arctic Circle... The Fuso has
made it to the Arctic Circle guys, check it out! That is an accomplishment guys!
This campsite is the place to be found on the iOverlander and it has a lot of
reviews! So.... There's potential to meet some fellow travellers on our stay here this evening...Finding your own campsites is a lot of fun, trust
me! But there is some added value in knowing that hey! This is a good place to
park! It's a little muddy here!
That's quite the view!...Mhhhh...
Let's see where this leads to.... Around and around we go!... Wow!... Oh my! That's a nice view!
Okay! Here's our camping site for the night! It's a little muddy but that's
always to be expected when you're out in the wilderness... But the views up here are
absolutely amazing, check them out!..You look up the definition of grandeur in
the dictionary and I'm pretty sure you'd see a picture of this! It's beautiful up
here!...Ah! But now it's time for lunch but at the hour of dinner. Hey! That's the way
it goes... And ahh...In case you haven't seen our kitchen setup in a while, here is our
current status with the kitchen! Well, the counters are still green! I was
against it for many, many years but it has found a home in this camper since it
has an inverter! And since.... Said stove didn't work for our first 11 months on
the road ahh... The little instant pot, 700 watt one
saved the day! Dinner tonight, just some very
generically seasoned chicken breasts! But our intentions are to slather it with
some barbecue sauce. And then what we don't eat, can be used in many other directions!
This is... The cauliflower that I probably should stir! So I'll go quick! And a pot
of rice... The Wallis diesel stove cook top since we got it serviced, has been a rock
star! We are loving it! Alright well, I'm not about to burn
dinner on us! Thanks for watching make sure you hit that SUBSCRIBE button
because tomorrow we are continuing this journey North to the Arctic Ocean... Thanks
for watching, we'll see you on the road!