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Oh heck yeah, you have to see your son & we appreciate his service!

Alaska can definitely wait.

If stopping in the Memphis area send me a PM. You don't want to park your rig overnight just anywhere near the Memphis area, it may not be there the next morning or may be stripped.

Be careful & tell your son a BIG THANKS! :captain:
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The cruise was not planned until mid May. I did the cruise as a birthday present to Carla. Her birthday was during the cruise.

I still like flying the drone. It was just a pain to get everyone to do their part when the drone was airborne.
Solid job on the bday gift. Going to see your son is also more important. Alaska will always be there, and he gave you a big date range of "ok Dad...get down here and see me".
 
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Oh heck yeah, you have to see your son & we appreciate his service!

Alaska can definitely wait.

If stopping in the Memphis area send me a PM. You don't want to park your rig overnight just anywhere near the Memphis area, it may not be there the next morning or may be stripped.

Be careful & tell your son a BIG THANKS! :captain:
Carla cried when I told her we are turning around and going to go see the kids. She has been homesick for weeks. She has been a trooper on this adventure. Perfect traveling, jeep wheeling and camp girl. Very few women could tolerate what she has gone through in the last 6 months and wake up happy and excited to face the day. Still, she loves her family and friends back home. She is Team Wiborn tough and was down for what ever I decided. She is good with doing Alaska next year. She has cried a could times today. Excited to be heading home, sad that we are not able to finish the trip as we had planned all at the same time. I just reaffirmed that our kid is not going into harm’s way again without us being able to see him again before he leaves.
 
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Solid job on the bday gift. Going to see your son is also more important. Alaska will always be there, and he gave you a big date range of "ok Dad...get down here and see me".
Well that was just one gift for her birthday. I bought her a ring with original birth stones in it. Five Alexandrite stones and eight diamonds. Think long arm lift kit with King coil over nice. I did not really have a chance to get her something as a retirement gift or something for her birthday. Plus it has been a few years since I bought her something really nice as we had been sinking money into the jeep and traveling a bunch. She probably deserves three times what I spent, but she is a simple girl when it comes to jewelry and she was humble and thankful for her birthday gift.

Now I just don’t know how to tell her I am pulling it out of her account to pay for it when we get home…… The struggle is real.

She raised very strong independent sons with a little help from me. She set the bar high for what a good woman is in their eyes. There is no way that we were not turning around. Wish he would have called a day earlier, it would have saved us about $600 in fuel. Gas is about $9 a gallon in Canada and saved us two border crossing.

He is gone a lot , if he is not deployed, he is gone for training all over the place. So now to get a good cigar, and a good bottle of bourbon for a night around the fire with him.
 
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Skagway Alaska was my favorite stop in Alaska. Cool old town , not over commercialized and the train ride up over White Pass was amazing.

Like his wine. I bought a bottle of it a few
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Possibly the only Jeeper on this train.
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If you ever get to ride the train out of Skagway, ride in the last car. You can stand on the back platform and take unobstructed pics.
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A shot of a train coming down from the Pass across the Valley. This probably a couple miles away.
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The vastness of Alaska.
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This the top of White Pass.
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I am as surprised at how well these pics from inside the tunnels turned out.
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This old bridge has seen better days.
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From this angle it looks like we just came over the collapsed bridge in the background.
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One of my favorite shot from the train.
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The rain came in as we started running Firebreak 5 trail. More obstacles than Cedar Tree trail. I did not snap as many pics because of the rain… Pouring rain. Most of these came from a muddy rocky down hill obstacle. Why because the rain had slowed down some.
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Of course Carla is driving and I am spotting. The mud was slick and she kind of slid her way down the hill and over the rocks.
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She did flex the Jeep out and posed it for some pics.
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Now to get hooked back up.
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A quick lunch on the trail and a little wine… very little to toast another great day of wheeling
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It was raining sideways with high winds. Hotel time, no camping tonight and no cooking outside.
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Mo is the place to be for seafood chowder on the beach in Cannon Beach.
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Hoping the weather will be better in the morning.

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Your pics on Firebreak #5 don't do it justice. Just did it today in my brand new '22 stock JLR on 33's. Holy sh.. Great fun and glad I had a great spotter. Glad I went down after the Cedar Tree #13 in.
 

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So beautiful. Riding the trains in Alaska is amazing. We got to take the Denali Star from Anchorage to Denali State Park & it was breath taking!

Your pictures though, like a work or art. Simply awesome!
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Finally some decent connection.

This day we met a boat that took us in close to glaciers that were calfing into the ocean. There are some epic shots here.

It starts out by getting onto a smaller boat than going more inland where the big cruise ship can not go. The boat ride was great. Hot free coffee and a full bar.













Going up the intercostal waters, I did see a whale breach and a whale put its tail in the air, but missed the shot.

The place is magnificent


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Waterfalls everywhere.
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This is bigger than it looks. Probably 30 feet out of the water.
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To understand how massive this glacier is, you will have to look near the lower right side of the glacier to see a big ship near the base.
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A little easier to see the ship in this shot.
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The blue ice is beautiful.
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Loved the different colors in this massive cliff.
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This is our sister ship.
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Doing my girl thing. Alaska hat, Alaska beer, flannel shirt matching the beer can. If I only had the shoes and the purse, my outfit would be complete.
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The following shots are to show scale.
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The boat is in front of the iceberg that was in the previous pic is the same boat in the picture below in front of the iceberg on the right.
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This excursion was worth the price of admission. The pics do not do it justice in showing how massive everything is.
 
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Didn’t do much in Ketchikan Alaska other than walk around and snap a couple pictures.

The famous picture that everyone takes.
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Great coffee. The cruise ship coffee sucked.
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We also had a quick stop in Victoria Canada but all we did was walk around town so not much there. It is known for its gardens. We got there at 830 pm. Most places were closed.
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Finally back in the Jeep. Heading towards Alaska. The border crossing was easy. The cost of fuel was about $9 a gallon. Some massive views from the road.
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First night in Canada, we camped at a trail head. Looked like some great wheeling. We soon turned around and headed to Montana.
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We drove all day and then camped at the Hueco Wall. A place for rock climbing.

Canadian humor
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So no guns in Canada, No problem. Carla is trained in Filipino knife fighting and she’s willing to defend me from the Bears.
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The rock climbing is just a short hike from camp.
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camp spot had a nice fire pit and someone left us enough cut wood for a fire.
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We did have other people show up and camp with us. They were there for the climbing. We were there for the free camp spot.
 
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The following morning we pressed through to Montana and ran the badge trail. The Black Tail Wild Bill Trail is rated as a 5 to 8 for difficulty. No idea where they came up with that. There was one kind of rock steep climb, no lockers needed. Everything else was a pretty smooth trail except where they took a loader or backhoe to make some obstacles on the side of the trail. I thought the trail
was easy.

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We camped right at the trailhead. Had a couple Jeeps, SxS and dirt bikes roll through. This was the kind of steep Rocky trail.
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These were an example of the man made obstacles. Easy trail a stock sport 4dr would probably drag its belly in a couple spots . Nothing major.
Jeep Wrangler JL So it begins Michigan to the Mexico border to Alaska and back.  Three JLUR and campers. BD2FDA89-AB98-445B-8A2A-1D55991E1068

There was some nice views.
Jeep Wrangler JL So it begins Michigan to the Mexico border to Alaska and back.  Three JLUR and campers. 9DA9FD7E-6A00-43FF-9BFF-75CE69314040
Jeep Wrangler JL So it begins Michigan to the Mexico border to Alaska and back.  Three JLUR and campers. 73E7D661-93C9-421F-B1A5-992DD6A373A7


The sunset was nice, though about flying the drone, but it was clear cut so it was not that pretty by the trailhead where we camped.
Jeep Wrangler JL So it begins Michigan to the Mexico border to Alaska and back.  Three JLUR and campers. E458D900-114A-40EE-9C46-14BBC61A1A2A
Jeep Wrangler JL So it begins Michigan to the Mexico border to Alaska and back.  Three JLUR and campers. 968D65FD-EAA9-4399-9841-61BE3D4C3249
Jeep Wrangler JL So it begins Michigan to the Mexico border to Alaska and back.  Three JLUR and campers. 34C763DE-70D4-4EF5-BDE7-0B23E6C0522A
Jeep Wrangler JL So it begins Michigan to the Mexico border to Alaska and back.  Three JLUR and campers. EC7F0230-A0AF-4E59-9FAF-88F78341DFC9
Jeep Wrangler JL So it begins Michigan to the Mexico border to Alaska and back.  Three JLUR and campers. 02E87A58-9DA4-4122-8BEF-13A32BC6BB99


We got up at 5 AM. I made a quick breakfast and coffee and we were rolling towards home by 6 AM. Drove for 13 1/2 hours for a total of 706 miles. Made it to Dickinson North Dakota. Still have about 1300 miles to go. So two more days of hard long days in the Jeep. Hope to be in the UP of Michigan tomorrow night and home Tuesday night. We grabbed a hotel tonight but will camp tomorrow.
 
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Your pics on Firebreak #5 don't do it justice. Just did it today in my brand new '22 stock JLR on 33's. Holy sh.. Great fun and glad I had a great spotter. Glad I went down after the Cedar Tree #13 in.
Was it wet, slippery and muddy? We started up it and turned around so we could come down it.

Throw some pics up se I can see your new Jeep wheeling the trails.
 

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Was it wet, slippery and muddy? We started up it and turned around so we could come down it.

Throw some pics up se I can see your new Jeep wheeling the trails.
No, not wet. We were welcomed to the trail by a TRD with broken drive train being winched up. Created quite a backup going up. I'm so glad we went down... I don't think I could have done it stock going up although my buddy said sure. He was speaking with 37s and a 3.5in lift.

The video I have is pretty boring except for the scraping sounds. I was crawling as slow as possible. Again, thank goodness my buddy is a skillful spotter. I will see about pulling out some stills and posting. But holy cow. Unfortunately pics don't do justice to how steep and treacherous trails can be.
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