The premiere of The RVers TV Show on the Discovery channel is coming up in just a few days on November 17th on the Discovery Channel!
ARE YOU READY??!?!?
ARE YOU READY??!?!?
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Time to hand in the keys to the Lance!
Here is our final LIVE update from over on the Lance Camper Facebook page where we were moments away from saying our goodbyes and heading out of Lancaster with our fifth wheel. After our adventures in Valdez and McCarthy, we hopped on the Glenn Highway that would take us to the largest city in Alaska: Anchorage. As a large population center, the busyness was a shock to us after being so remote for so long. We resupplied here, taking advantage of cheap fuel and food before heading on down the Kenai Peninsula to its very southern tip in Homer. We are so excited that the premiere of our new TV show, The RVers, is less than 3 weeks away! Where will you be for the premiere? If you're in our area, you should join us or our co-hosts at an in-person Watch Party! 
We are BACK in the USA! We crossed the border after finishing up our adventures in Canada. Even though we are back, we and the pups had a few more weeks yet before we returned to Lance Campers when we shared the update below. We've now been getting the question, "What's next?"
McCarthy, Alaska lies in the middle of the United States' largest National Park and is home to the historic remains of the Kennecott Mine - the largest and purest yielding copper mine of its day!
Valdez, AK is the northernmost ice-free port in the USA, burned into many people's memories by the terrible Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill in 1989 - the worst in human history until Deepwater Horizon in 2010. Some remnants of the 11 million gallons of oil spilled can still be found in pockets around the sound, over 30 years later.
While visiting this quaint town nestled in the fjords of coastal Alaska on Prince William sound, we went salmon fishing and explore the Worthington Glacier before heading out to McCarthy to see the historic Kennicott Copper Mine (read McCarthy Blog Here).
Do you camp in cold weather? We've been in some cold weather for the past couple weeks and wanted to share how it has been going, plus some tips and tricks we've learned along the way to make cold weather camping much more enjoyable.
Dawson City: Located at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers, this town embodies the gold rush days from which it was born. Vibrant, eclectic, and a bit gritty, here the glory days of the past live on in the dirt streets, architecture, and residents.
This town is home to just over 1300 people, although many do not stay through the winters and summer is a good time to visit. There is so much to see, do eat and drink here and after passing through the town twice before, we finally got some time to take in this unique community during the last week of July 2019.
Worried about finding places to camp on your way up to Alaska? Never fear - after our summer of traveling in northern Canada & Alaska there are MANY awesome dry camping sites as well as campgrounds. Here, we share our favorite strategies and tools for finding campsites:
Catch our biweekly Lance Camper Facebook live videos on the Lance Camper Facebook page throughout the Go North adventure!
Road to the Arctic Ocean – Driving the Dempster Highway to Tuktoyaktuk | Go North Episode 129/14/2019
In November 2017, a brand-new all-season road was opened from the town of Inuvik, NT to the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, located on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. The Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway connected the Dempster Highway to the Arctic Ocean, and became the first and only Canadian road to the Arctic Coast.
When we found out about this road, we knew we just had to drive it!
And suddenly, it turned to fall! Fall in Alaska is gorgeous: between the bright yellow aspens and the ruby red tundra, it takes autumn to a whole new palette of awesome! We talk about our Alaska fall experience in our Lance Facebook Update below:
Hello from Whittier, Alaska! Join us for a quick update as we cook up an Alaskan Salmon dinner in our Lance Truck Camper. After an awesome fishing trip in Valdez, we have plenty of salmon but not enough recipes - we would love to hear your favorite salmon recipe! Fun in the Midnight Sun - Fairbanks, The Dalton Highway, & the Arctic Circle | Go North Episode 118/23/2019
After visiting Denali National Park we headed further north to Fairbanks, the second largest city in Alaska, to celebrate the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice. The Midnight Sun is one of the hallmarks of Alaskan and Arctic summer travel, and we were excited to get the full experience at the Midnight Sun Festival before traveling north to the Arctic Circle and beyond to see what 24-hour sunshine is really like!
Throughout history, attitudes toward wilderness have not always been favorable. Regarded as places of darkness, mystery, wild beasts, and confusion, the beauty of nature was seen only in what was useful. It wasn’t until much more recently that these places were widely considered beautiful and necessary for simply being what they are. Now, many people including us seek to visit these wild places, to appreciate them, and to catch a glimpse what an untamed world might look like. Denali National Park is one of these places.
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