This is the third part of guest blogger Roger Norum’s four-part series on driving Alaska’s Dalton Highway, or Haul Road, with his father. The Dalton is the gateway to the most remote regions of the interior and northern parts of Alaska and offers a rare glimpse of America’s Arctic – an opportunity to imagine what [...]

This is part 2 of Roger Norum’s four-part guest post on his road trip through Alaska with his father. Driving in Alaska is an experience amplified by the extended summer hours of near-Arctic daylight, an unsettling phenomenon that deceives the senses: driving without headlamps at 10pm; a glowing red sunset at midnight; waking up to [...]

Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has brought Alaska to the headlines – suddenly everyone is talking about ice fishing and helicopter hunting. But what is the 49th state really like? Travel writer Roger Norum, a native New Yorker based in Oxford, England, has written a four-part account of his road trip along Alaska’s Dalton Highway, or [...]