Our Alaska Trip
We're back in the US and resting for a week at Glacier National Park. At this point have registered about 7500 miles from Northern Wisconsin to our furthest point which was Homer, AK. We were on the ...
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sue.t wrote:
Gosh ... wonder what was wrong with us? We made the trip every year for years. Loved it. So moved to Yukon.
Yukon & Alaska are different despite being neighbours and sharing a border. We prefer Yukon.
Choices alter cases...or something like that! I'm with Sue...although I've made other choices for right now, I've driven the Alcan 20+ times and fully anticipate getting to the point (spelled "Retirement") in the next few years where I will drive it at least every other year.
Sue, while I definitely agree that YT and AK are different, and solely based on some dawdling road trips through the area, I can certainly understand a choice for the Yukon. In my view, in the months between April and September anyway, YT feels much more like Alaska should feel. (Not quite sure how a location gets to "feel" ;)...but there it is). From October through March, AK feels like AK should feel, particularly if one gets more than 50 miles away from Los Anchorage and/or away from the easily accessible sno-go recreation sites.
