A Return Trip to Alaska Motivation
In my reading, I see several folks have made several RV trips to Alaska. You will have seen the scenery, done the tourist stuff, and satisfied your curiosity with the prior visit. If you elimina...
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Trackrig said:
"I don't think I'd call Sue's posting a "rant". It's very common knowledge for people that have lived in Alaska for a long period of time. (I've been here 50+ years.) It's often interesting to watch new people move up here. They usually either really love the place and want to stay a long time, or they can't stand it and can't wait to move out. Whereas stateside, it seems that a lot of people just live where they live and neither really like or dis-like it."
Truer words were never spoken.....other than the unfortunate stints in Spokane and Ewe-stun, as an otherwise lifelong Alaskan, folks either love or hate Alaska. If they live in Los Anchorage or Squarebanks, it sometimes (sometimes!) takes a bit longer to decide, but almost exclusively, people either love it or hate it. My experience is similar to Trackrig's: I'm surprised at the number of folks "Outside" who just live somewhere without passion for it.
To the OP who mentioned that "one of us is not interested in doing it by RV"....I've lived in Alaska quite a bit as mentioned above and never (except for a couple of weeks as a kid) RV'd in Alaska and never taken an RV to Alaska. Yet I fly back for a long weekend at the drop of a hat, fly back for almost every vacation day I have, and will at some point load up the truck for the long drive from Ewe-Stun to The Great Land...never to leave again.
There's a lot to experience in Alaska and neither experiencing it nor getting to Alaska requires an RV...and as Sue T mentioned, many folks that RV a lot in the L48 are disappointed, not unreasonably so, at the RV'ng facilities in Alaska...but the attractions are still there whether one drives an RV or not:
- The flora and fauna along that Dall Sheep trail;
- The bright summer view or the severe winter beauty from Seven Glaciers (a true "fine-dining" venue) atop Mt.Alyeska
- The snap of a grayling realizing it's just been hooked
- The view of Mt. McKinley from a DNP tour bus.
...and so on.
RV'ng isn't the only way to visit or enjoy Alaska.
"I don't think I'd call Sue's posting a "rant". It's very common knowledge for people that have lived in Alaska for a long period of time. (I've been here 50+ years.) It's often interesting to watch new people move up here. They usually either really love the place and want to stay a long time, or they can't stand it and can't wait to move out. Whereas stateside, it seems that a lot of people just live where they live and neither really like or dis-like it."
Truer words were never spoken.....other than the unfortunate stints in Spokane and Ewe-stun, as an otherwise lifelong Alaskan, folks either love or hate Alaska. If they live in Los Anchorage or Squarebanks, it sometimes (sometimes!) takes a bit longer to decide, but almost exclusively, people either love it or hate it. My experience is similar to Trackrig's: I'm surprised at the number of folks "Outside" who just live somewhere without passion for it.
To the OP who mentioned that "one of us is not interested in doing it by RV"....I've lived in Alaska quite a bit as mentioned above and never (except for a couple of weeks as a kid) RV'd in Alaska and never taken an RV to Alaska. Yet I fly back for a long weekend at the drop of a hat, fly back for almost every vacation day I have, and will at some point load up the truck for the long drive from Ewe-Stun to The Great Land...never to leave again.
There's a lot to experience in Alaska and neither experiencing it nor getting to Alaska requires an RV...and as Sue T mentioned, many folks that RV a lot in the L48 are disappointed, not unreasonably so, at the RV'ng facilities in Alaska...but the attractions are still there whether one drives an RV or not:
- The flora and fauna along that Dall Sheep trail;
- The bright summer view or the severe winter beauty from Seven Glaciers (a true "fine-dining" venue) atop Mt.Alyeska
- The snap of a grayling realizing it's just been hooked
- The view of Mt. McKinley from a DNP tour bus.
...and so on.
RV'ng isn't the only way to visit or enjoy Alaska.
