After spending almost a full year away, it’s good to finally be home. But, coming home to off grid Alaska means no time to relax! Since we’ve been gone so long we needed to bring quite a few supplies from town, just in case. And since we knew some things had broken before Kyle closed up, we needed some new things too. A new 4 wheeler and sled were top of the list. Can’t fit four on our Kodiak 450!
Author: Katie
Hi I'm Katie! My husband Kyle, daughter Bellamy, and I are currently working on living our off grid dream on 5.5 acres of raw land in Alaska. Follow us on our journey of starting a homestead from scratch!
How To Prep For Driving The ALCAN
Kyle is finally back in Alaska, hooray!
This is the second time in 12 months that Kyle has made the ALCAN (Alaska-Canada highway) drive, and we thought we’d put together a little checklist for anyone else who is planning the drive through Canada to reach Alaska. Last March Kyle drove entirely on the ALCAN, while this time he took a different route for a part of the trip along the Stewart-Cassiar highway. This shaved about 3 hours from his drive, though it was a bit more dangerous for driving. Just check out this rolled and abandoned semi he saw! I wonder if someone will come back for it in summer?
Our original plan was to have us all drive together in Spring, but since it’s still fully winter Kyle took Ronan and did the trip himself. We didn’t really want to make a million potty stops for pregnant me and the toddler. With just the dog, he was able to make the trip in about 4 days, with a total of 47 hours driving. That’s a bit longer than the actual ALCAN because it starts at Mile 0 in Dawson’s Creek, CA and ends in Delta Junction, AK. Since Kyle was coming from Washington, there was extra drive time and mileage involved. This was not a leisure trip, but a get from Point A to Point B trip, so there were a lot of long stretches of driving. Even with all the music he listened to, he was also able to get through 2 1/2 Harry Potter books (Amazon) on audio tape! Continue reading “How To Prep For Driving The ALCAN”
10 Reasons We Picked The Husky To Guard Our Homestead
If you follow us over on Facebook, you’ll see that our new guard husky Kolache has been quite the hit! He’s an adorable little scamp, I can see why people are loving him 😉
But that brings up something I’ve received quite a few questions about. Why huskies? They are well known for being high maintenance, trouble maker dogs. Not exactly what you want on the average homestead. The thing is that everything that would make them a bad fit elsewhere is exactly what makes them perfect for us!
Here are 10 reasons we picked the husky to guard our homestead:
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Best Of Sled Dog Slow 2018
We may not have been around or posting much this last year, but we still had a lot of new readers! Some of the ways people found us were Pinterest, search engines, Stumbleupon, and Facebook. Most of our readers this year came from the US, with readers from as far as Israel, Isle of Man, Belize and Iceland.
Popular search terms included jungle junkyard, how to raise chickens without electricity, dog labor, outhouse bathroom, Alaska bush living and what are the reasons people would like to live in the bush. Our top 10 morst read posts for Sled Dog Slow 2018 are:
Homestead Goals For 2019
In keeping with the trend since I started this blog, I wanted to lay out our goals for the homestead over the next year. Even though we spent most of this year away from Alaska, we are excited to return to what we think of as our “real” lives. So here are our homestead goals for 2019!
Homestead Goals 2018-2019
We had a total of 8 goals we wanted to accomplish in 2018. I will move a few of these over to 2019’s goals as well, like purchasing a fishing permit so we don’t have to go to town for work. Others will be expanded on or completely removed for this coming year. Our goals for 2018 were: Continue reading “Homestead Goals For 2019”
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