Who the heck goes to the Arctic Circle?

So Brian discovered that there are only two roads in all of North America that go to the Arctic circle, and that one of them is relatively close (500 miles) to Skagway. With that challenge ahead of us, we packed up the jeep and drove the most beautiful roads I have ever seen in my life, ate the largest sticky bun I have ever seen in my life and completely destroyed my biological clock. . . which was confused why it looked like daytime at 2am.


These beautiful cotton flowers were growing all over the permafrost tundra. It was so weird to walk on the tundra-- it is like a giant sponge that sinks in a foot as you walk.

What you don't see in this photo is the swarm of mosquitos that followed us all night. . . it was crazy.

On the dempster highway.

This picture was taken at midnight!! The sun never really goes down on the Arctic circle. It stayed like this all night.

Sunset on the way to the Arctic circle