1961 my first trip from San Francico to Alaska and back.
Jan 25, 2021 15:03:00 #
craig.j.tucker wrote:
Your rustic, muddy old photos really captured something special for me.
I've made the AlCan 3 three times and your pictures are making me want to howl!
I've made the AlCan 3 three times and your pictures are making me want to howl!
Thank you very very much.
Jan 25, 2021 15:03:28 #
Jan 25, 2021 15:04:09 #
One Rude Dawg wrote:
Lots of memories there, my first trip up 1957, a lot of dirt road. Once you see that country it will never leave you, nothing like it. Not over run back then like it is now. 
Thank you very very much.
Jan 25, 2021 15:04:57 #
Real Nikon Lover wrote:
A wonderful series! I would have been 4 years old then. You make the point of taking photos for moments frozen in time; blessed times. I hope and pray that your dear wife is still with you to reflect back on those memories. I am coming up on 34 years of marriage and wish I had taken more photos way back at the beginning of the journey. You done good! Love Alaska. On our bucket list to go back and visit it again.
Thank you very very much.
Jan 25, 2021 15:06:06 #
Jan 25, 2021 15:45:44 #
Flying Three
Loc: Berthoud, CO
Nice series, and wonderful memories. . . .Do you still have the sweetheart?
Jan 25, 2021 15:55:37 #
Great set Mike. A different look in B&W than your usual color work.
Jan 25, 2021 16:42:32 #
These 60 year old photos of your trip are great, Mike. Sorry about the ones you lost.
Jan 25, 2021 17:41:03 #
Jan 25, 2021 17:41:53 #
Flying Three wrote:
Nice series, and wonderful memories. . . .Do you still have the sweetheart?
Thank you very very much, yes she is still mine.
Jan 25, 2021 17:43:28 #
Vince68 wrote:
Great set Mike. A different look in B&W than your usual color work.
Thank you very very much Vince, color was to expensive than.
Jan 25, 2021 17:44:59 #
John from gpwmi wrote:
These 60 year old photos of your trip are great, Mike. Sorry about the ones you lost.
Thank you very very much John. While moving the suitcase disappeared.
Jan 25, 2021 19:02:09 #
Jan 25, 2021 19:10:33 #
Reminds me of my trip to Alaska in 1975. My wife & I camped in the back of a 1967 Ford pickup. Took a ferry boat on the inside passage going up from Port Hardy, BC on the north end of Vancouver Island to Haines, Alaska. Stayed a month inside Alaska hiking & fishing from Fairbanks down to Anchorage, the Kenai penninsula down to Homer. We drove back the Alcan Hwy which was all gravel then and since they were building the pipeline we met 100's of trucks daily driving 70 mph or more and throwing big rocks. We had put on headlight protectors but our windshield had a dozen cracks or more. I shot a lot of 35mm film that summer, I will have to post a few pics.
Jan 25, 2021 19:25:15 #
srfmhg wrote:
I love these Mike. Was your car a Ford Fairlane 500?
Thank you very very much Mark, yes it was a Ford Fairlane 500, at the time a great car.
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