Anchorage to Mexico City
In Anchorage I stayed in 'The Teddy Bear House Bed & Breakfast. There are thousands of these bear there, all part of the owners collection. There are soldier bears and sailor bears, lady bears and gentlemen bears, big bears and small bears. The whole house is completely filled with them. There is, and I should be shot for even thinking it, bearly room for the guests.
If all the tourists arrive at the same time the population of Chicken, Alaska sometimes reaches double figures. It's called 'Chicken' because they couldn't spell 'Ptarmigan'.
Dawson is a pretty little town in Canada that looks like it was designed by Walt Disney trying to film a Western. Strange then that it should be the genuine article where gold miners spent their money as fast as they could dig it up and showgirls accumulated vast fortunes as fast as they could separate the miners from their wealth.
If the idea of living in what was once a frontier town then the house on the right is for sale. It needs a little work but should be suitable for a DIY enthusiast.
For a job you could always buy and reactivate Dredge #4. This monster ate its way through the landscape scooping earth up in two and a half ton buckets, sorting out the gold and depositing the detritus in its wake. Sometimes they could get two hundred ounces a day. Don't expect to start an employment boom though, it took just four men to operate this monster.
At Lake Watson there are several acres of these signposts. It's one of the most bizarrely pointless collections I have ever seen.
Salmon Glacier in the morning. I thought this was pretty spectacular - so good that I even appreciated with a hangover that came from drinking the night before in 'Hyder'. The moral of the story is never to drink anything that comes from an unlabelled bottle especially if the locals tell you that it's 'traditional' to down the shots in one.
Arches National Park has some of the most alien looking scenery you could hope to find. Scattered throughout are these strange arches, caused by the collapse of the underlying salt table. This one is called Landscape Arch.
Sometimes the campsites can be a bit basic...
.. but when it all becomes too much for you there is always the chance to pop off the planet for a while in Las Vegas.
The church tower is all that's left of the town of San Jose in Mexico where over the course of a few weeks in 1943 a new volcano appeared, grew, erupted and destroyed the rest of the buildings. I can think of quite a few towns and cities that should suffer the same fate.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on here once you know that the town is Tequila. For anyone who has ever heard of him this is the distilery that makes Sammy Hagar's own personal brand of the stuff.
Around Banff there is some spectacular hiking. The the only slight drawback is that about every mile or so there are signs nailed to the trees that say, in large friendly letters
      "BEWARE OF THE BEARS".

Poor Mexico, so far from God and so near to the United States
    President Porfiri Diaz