{"id":2989,"date":"2023-07-19T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2023-08-05T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T00:41:43","slug":"back-in-the-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"Back in the U.S.A"},"content":{"rendered":"

We left Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada via the Top of the World Highway. The first few hours of driving were in very dense fog.<\/p>\n

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The first portion of the Top of the World Highway has incredible views, which we didn’t get to see<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the fog lifted we crossed back into the U.S.A. at the very remote Poker Creek border station.<\/p>\n

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Our fifth time zone change of the trip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We didn’t get a picture of it, but the border station had a signed taped up in the window that said “Yes, we live here” and another that said “Yes, we like it here.”<\/p>\n

After crossing the border we made a brief stop in the tiny community of Chicken, Alaska.<\/p>\n

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Gotta have a large chicken sculpture made out of scrap metal in Chicken, Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We stopped for expensive groceries and gas in Tok, Alaska, on the Alaska Highway. Even though it had been a long driving day already, we decided to press on all the way to the Nabesna Road portion of Wrangell – St Elias National Park.<\/p>\n

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We left Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada via the Top of the World Highway. The first few hours of driving were in very dense fog. After the fog lifted we crossed back into the U.S.A. at the very remote Poker Creek border station. We didn’t get a picture of it, but the border station had … Continue reading Back in the U.S.A<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}