This blog is about my road-camping trip with my German shepherd dogs, Leben and Erde, from 19 Sept to 13 Oct 2012, which took us 3700 miles from DC to NY (and Beech Mountain), and then onto seven different provincial and national parks circling the Great Lakes. Just before Thunder Bay, Ontario, Leben became paralyzed, so we returned by way of Minnesota and then east to DC.

Journey with Sonntag 2000











This trip was 12,500 miles over 42 days, camping all along the way, except on the ferry, where I slept in my tent on the bow and Sonntag in our  Defender.  The trip was the featured piece of the January 2002 National Geographic cover story, "From Wolf to Woof," and in March 2012 it was the featured dog story in the first-ever National Geographic special edition on cats and dogs.  Click here to see a 3 minute YouTube piece NG photographer Richard Olensius made of the trip.

We stayed in some of the camps more than one night and I camped on the ferry deck from Juneau to Prince Rupert.

Cut and paste the below coordinates in Google Earth/Map:

Dalton Hiway, Sonntag/Kessie's Spot, Snow Camp 2,3:  68°32'59.43" N 149°29'16.92" W
Dalton Hiway Grayling Lake: 66°57'11.78" N 150°24'17.39" W
Dalton Hiway, Camp 1,4:
Dalton Hiway, Arctic Circle:  66°33'23.30" N 150°48'42.57" W

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