Roll Call Alaska 2013

Count me in about 2028.

Planning to have about 6 trips to Alaska in 2013. Only problem is that there will probably be 7 trips to Ewe-Stun.

I wanna go too! Last year was our first trip to Alaska. It is addicting. Would go back in a minute! Hope everyone has a great time in 2013!

Don't forget to buy the milepost and get the money saver tour book.

toursaver

Milepost

The planning is so much fun.

Janet

We are taking our first trip to Alaska next year. Plan to leave St Louis on May 31st. This will be our welcome to retirement trip. :B DW actually retired Dec '11 but I have to wait till May '13.

PA12, I thought you had retired and moved back home to Anchorage? Or are you doing one of the world's longest commutes to work? During the building of the "pipe", I met a couple of folks that worked, the two weeks on and two weeks off schedule. They neither had a residence in Alaska, but would get dropped off the oil company flight, in Anchorage, then catch a flight to Seattle and another one to Tulsa, where they spent the rest of their two weeks off with their families, in their own home, then fly back to Alaska for another two weeks of work. They said the cost of the round trip plane ticket was less than, what it would cost them to have an apartment in Anchorage, plus a car, etc.

Anyway back to the topic, we are scheduled to head back north next summer, as we alternate summers between western Colorado and Alaska. This past summer was spent in Colorado, Utah and Arizona so this up coming summer is for Alaska.
No set plans yet for when we will leave, or the route we will take. My wife is talking about retiring from wage working about June, so that will/could effect when we leave Florida. Also she gets tired of the trip up somewhat, so she is considering flying up to meet me sometimes during the summer and riding back. I probably should start conjuring a bit more, on the subject. Only takes us three or four days and we are on the road. No matter how long I plan, I can count on forgetting something I need and have to replace. Probably have one of the finer collections of camping axes of anyone, 6 or 8 I would guess, Last trip I remembered to take my axe, but forgot camera memory chips, always something it seems. :)

Joe b.,

Much to my chagrin, I've found I'm still susceptible to filthy lucre. I've been offered too much money to keep the plug pulled. I'll be "comuting" between Alaska and Houston; which really means that I'll get quite a few trips to Alaska, but not regularly. We'll see what happens in a year or so.

I've told SWMBO that if I'm going back to working/Houston, then I need a fast-mover as well as the PA-12.....and in my terms, that translates to a 185. :)

We plan to head out late May or early June for a slow paced trip of at least two months. I have Mile Post and the Church book and will get the tour saver booklet. It's a slow process but I am making a POI for Garmin with the turnouts as defined in Milepost. If you want to try it out after I finish PM and let me know (keep in mind it will only be worth what you pay for it which is nothing). If thing work out I could be in Fla. in Feb and Fairbanks in June.....loving retirement!!!!

Well, darn, Jim ... I could simply send you the waypoints collected with my Garmin from our numerous trips north. I use the old program nRoute while DH drives so have very accurate data for turnouts, lodges, lunchstops, etc.

No need to do all that work yourself.

I can email a gdb file compatible with Garmin. Send me a private message with your email address if you're interested. Of course, I might sanitize it a bit to keep our favorite fishing holes secret!

Guess you can say I will be the first one present, which will make the 29th time stepping foot on Alaska Frozen Soil on January 1, as December this year will mark my 30th year anniversary.

Right now in my location it is presently -23 F, as yesterday morning marked the first day of the 2012-2013 winter by registering the first -20 F below day of the winter season....a blistering -27 F below.

I think last January 1 the temp reached -42 F, and we postponed the annual News Year's Eve fireworks show for a week.