Caravan's and Tour Groups

sue.t wrote:
If you're experienced RVers, you likely won't have any extra worries travelling here in the North.

There's nothing too foreboding up here. And us locals don't hesitate to stop and help out if there's a problem.

The locals are great! In August 2013, we had two flat rear truck tires at the same time on the Top-of-the-World Highway. It happened shortly after crossing a rough-graded portion (jagged rock being graded by a D-8) on the Alaska end of the road. I had a small 12v compressor, but didn't need it for those two tires due to a wonderful lowboy truck driver who stopped when he saw our flats. He put 5 plugs in one tire and one in the other and pumped up both tires with the compressor on his rig. He did in 15 minutes what would likely have taken me an hour or more to do with my smaller plug tool, skinny plugs, and tiny compressor.

So, even on a relatively lightly traveled road--compared to the Alaska or Cassiar highways--help was nearly instantaneous. And, for us, the months during a LONG winter spent planning the trip were nearly as much fun as the trip itself. It may have helped that I had worked in Alaska many times, beginning in 1972. But neither of us had ever been to northern BC or the Yukon, so that made the planning all the more interesting. And, despite having been in Alaska so many times before and a few problems like the flat tires, our 2013 RV summer in the Pacific NW, Canada, and Alaska was still our dream "trip-of-a-lifetime."