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Alaska Distance traveled
or Bust! from Georgetown
Lannom/Holmes –
10,067 miles / 10 weeks

Stateler –
12,310 miles / 12 weeks

Straube –
16,000 miles / 16 weeks

Let the journey begin! Members of the Sun City RV Club gather in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, the starting point of
their Alaskan road trip. Shown above, left to right: Jerry Holmes, Debbie Lannom, Darby Lannom, Dayna Straube, Paul
Straube, Cathy Stateler, Barbara Holmes, Davey Stateler.

Editor’s note: When we discovered that 15, have already been busy. Between lumbia, which was a vital freight station
members of the RV Club were going on them they’d visited Pikes Peak, Yellow- during the construction of the Alaska
a trek to Alaska, we asked them to keep stone, Fairmont Hot Springs and Gla- Highway. While exploring the Alaska
a journal and take pictures of their trip cier National Park. The Lannoms and Highway Museum, we learned the high-
for the Sun Rays; they kindly obliged. Holmes, on the other hand, had not done way was built in only eight months – a
The following are just a few highlights any sightseeing yet. Instead, they drove real feat, considering the highway is
from their adventure. directly to Dawson Creek over five long 1,523 miles long.
JULY 4 & 5 days and arrived with a crack in their JULY 8
DAWSON CREEK, BC - MILE 0 windshield. But they remained unde- WATSON LAKE, YT -
terred, and with the addition of some HISTORICAL MILE 635
This was our first day together, and we crazy glue and adhesive tape, it was
were all happy and excited to begin our deemed safe to travel onward. The morning air was full of smoke due
trip to Alaska. Paul and Dayna Straube, to wildfires in British Columbia. Upon
who left home on June 4, and Davey and The Mile 0 milepost marker is located arrival to Watson Lake, we learned the
Cathy Stateler, who departed on June in downtown Dawson Creek, British Co- road behind us had been closed because

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