Trip costs?
Even for those who try to do the North in a few weeks or a month there are some fixed costs. Transportation costs won't vary much. The big part is getting there & coming back. Those with time don't ad...
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petrel wrote:
We took our family of six up to AK in the summer of '16. We found that boon docking, avoiding restaurants, and staying out of gift shops seemed to be the best way to keep costs down, without limiting our enjoyment of the area.
Fishing charters, plane charters, and tours tend to jack up the overall cost, but we could not reconcile traveling that far and not seeing everything we could.
X2 :)
We boondock a lot when travelling through BC, Yukon and up to Alaska. Rarely eat out except to "try" which usually means "share" something you just can't miss or an area is known for so to speak.
Like you we wouldn't not allow funds/budget, within reason, to do things that we really wanted to when in any area we might not get the chance to do again. To us that would be a false economy on our part.
