Thanks for the article Vic. It is astounding reading the comments and the vitriolic hatred some Cnandians apparently have for their neighbor to the South...Really pathetic.
I drove from Virginia to Alaska at the beginning of the month legally. I am about to start a brief consulting project near Fairbanks so we had the necessary paperwork to get into Canada. We crossed at Sweet Water Montana as it was the shortest distance to get across Canada. We drove up to Calgary and got on the Alcan.
The only Covid issues we had in crossing Alberta, B.C. and the Yukon was that we were stopped at the Yukon border and told we had 24 hours to get into Alaska. We had to verify we had enough food and camping capabilities (we took the F-350 with the Hallmark camper) to only stop for fuel which we were happy to comply with. Even though it took us 26 hours but there was no one at the AK/Yukon border to verify our crossing.
A couple of observations... First no one at the border was wearing any masks etc. The people we saw were generally going about their business and this was particularly true in Calgary. Of all the cities we drove through from Virginia to Alaska, Calgary had the most traffic and every shopping center we drove by was full of cars...so much for social distancing... Once we got passed Calgary everything appeared relatively normal with the exception that many of the Visitor Centers and museums were closed. Restaurants were open (but we didn’t go in to eat) and people were generally happy to talk when we were fueling up. We hope that they’ll be open when we return in August. We specifically did not drive through Banff and Jasper as there are very few places to camp there that are not part of their national park system and we didn’t want to take any chances..
How both our governments can think that camping in wide open spaces can be an issue is beyond me...but that’s another conversation for another time....
