{"id":1562,"date":"2017-07-23T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2017-07-23T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:00:07","slug":"ready-to-roll-on-the-alaska-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=1562","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Roll on the Alaska Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to say about today. It was just driving the 366 miles from Edmonton, Alberta to Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Despite a couple of showers the drive was fast with mainly pleasant roadside views of farmland but nothing special. The map and video are <a href=\"\/Tripmapper\/Mapview2.aspx?DataFile=Alaska\/2017_07_23_Dawson_Creek&amp;Video=bMj-3-FSBfY\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dawson Creek is at the start of the Alaska Highway and my one photo stop was at the marker for mile zero of the original (1942) road. My hotel is a few hundred metres from the current start of the highway so I will visit there tomorrow for a photo and to begin tomorrow&#8217;s video.<\/p>\n<p>This is the historical mile-zero marker for the Alaska highway <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1565\" src=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dawson-Creek-Mile-Zero-Sign.jpg\" alt=\"Dawson Creek Mile Zero Sign\" width=\"760\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dawson-Creek-Mile-Zero-Sign.jpg 760w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dawson-Creek-Mile-Zero-Sign-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>and here are the miles I will be driving to get to Fairbanks.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1564\" src=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dawson-Creek-Mile-Zero-Sign-Detail.jpg\" alt=\"Dawson Creek Mile Zero Sign Detail\" width=\"760\" height=\"1466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dawson-Creek-Mile-Zero-Sign-Detail.jpg 760w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dawson-Creek-Mile-Zero-Sign-Detail-156x300.jpg 156w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dawson-Creek-Mile-Zero-Sign-Detail-531x1024.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to say about today. It was just driving the 366 miles from Edmonton, Alberta to Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Despite a couple of showers the drive was fast with mainly pleasant roadside views of farmland but nothing special. The map and video are here. Dawson Creek is at the start of the Alaska &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=1562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready to Roll on the Alaska Highway<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,3],"tags":[72,73],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}