{"id":42,"date":"2015-06-09T00:12:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T04:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/?p=42"},"modified":"2020-11-06T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:05:33","slug":"along-the-alaska-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Along the Alaska Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the Alaska Highway through British Columbia (and along the eastern edge of the Canadian Rockies) has been an interesting mix of very good road.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45\" src=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-004.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Along the Alaska Highway, British Columbia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And not.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-208.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-44 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-208-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"b 2015_06_08_ Sikanni_Toad River 208\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-208-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-208.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another stretch, also in BC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had heard horror stories of issues with logging trucks, but so far, the highway has mostly been ours alone. (Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have said that).<\/p>\n<p>Our drive today took us along the eastern edge of the Canadian Rockies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43\" src=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-118-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Reflection Lake, Toad River, BC\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-118-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b-2015_06_08_-Sikanni_Toad-River-118.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reflection Lake, Toad River, BC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We camped Monday night (8 June) at the Toad River Lodge, about 1\/3 of the way along the highway. We are a day ahead of plan.<\/p>\n<p>This turns out to be a very interesting spot. Our site is right along the lake, and we have a number of ducks, beaver and muskrat, and two moose, for company.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_06_08_-Moose-Crop2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48\" src=\"http:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_06_08_-Moose-Crop2-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Two moose in Reflection Lake\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_06_08_-Moose-Crop2-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_06_08_-Moose-Crop2-1024x797.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two moose in Reflection Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the Alaska Highway through British Columbia (and along the eastern edge of the Canadian Rockies) has been an interesting mix of very good road. And not. We had heard horror stories of issues with logging trucks, but so far, the highway has mostly been ours alone. (Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have said that). Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/?p=42\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Along the Alaska Highway<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wigginsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}