Alaska Caravan - Summer 2017??
Anyone interested in caravanning together on a 60 day or so round-trip to Alaska this coming summer? I'll ether pull my 5th wheel or load my 2004 Lance 815 up and take that. My wife and I are both...
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R. Walter wrote:
Thanks for the interest, but I'm thinking that I'd probably like to cover 250-300 miles a day or so, which may be a little faster than you like. And maybe take a day off in a nice location every 3 -4 days.
If you're towing a fifth wheel, 300 miles a day might be optimistic for the Alaska Highway. There will be construction zones with up to a 30 minute wait for the pilot car, and there will be sections with lots of frost heaves and dips that can damage your rig if you hit them too fast. There are sections of the highway where we invest four hours to travel 100 miles so that we don't damage the fifth wheel - bent axles are common.
With the truck camper we can make better time but we still mosey along when we know the highway is unpredictable.
36km of road construction equals 22 miles
Although, sometimes the wait for a pilot car can be entertaining
