Trip Expectations
Looking at some poster's trip plans leaves me wondering just how these folks expect to see anything on their trip to Alaska. We have been 3 times round trip from MD. Each time trip duration was ov...
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When we tell people how long it took us to drive roundtrip to Alaska, they are surprised it took so long, we were disappointed in how little time we spent. We were on the road for 75 days more or less and drove 12,000 miles, met friends and family at Anchorage Airport and returned them for their flights home and spent days on our own exploring.
Obviously we like to travel and when we do we generally don't have just "one" destination, we have hundreds, as my signature says, "The great affair is to go". Now that the frailties of life are overtaking me, I like to go a little slower. Read that as "staying put for a few days or a week in many POIs and not driving 12 or 13 thousand miles in ten weeks.
We are planning on returning to AK with our Winnie and our towed, there are quite a few places we want to explore and highlights we want to know intimately and that means find a spot and meet some fellow RVers and some locals and see much more of those POIs I mentioned.
A few years ago, we had the opportunity to take our DGD with us for three weeks on a trip to Washington State. In ONE day we drove and visited a lot in ten hours, but we only went 90 highway miles. We have been going to the Oregon Coast to visit family and explore since 1967. Mostly we rushed up and back and stayed in one or two spots with family while we amassed a huge bucket list of POI between here and Florence OR. While our DDs will have to go see them on their own, WE and the DGD saw many of them.
Things and interests change, life time goals do to, so we don't judge our travel experiences against others, we just have our Great Affair.
Obviously we like to travel and when we do we generally don't have just "one" destination, we have hundreds, as my signature says, "The great affair is to go". Now that the frailties of life are overtaking me, I like to go a little slower. Read that as "staying put for a few days or a week in many POIs and not driving 12 or 13 thousand miles in ten weeks.
We are planning on returning to AK with our Winnie and our towed, there are quite a few places we want to explore and highlights we want to know intimately and that means find a spot and meet some fellow RVers and some locals and see much more of those POIs I mentioned.
A few years ago, we had the opportunity to take our DGD with us for three weeks on a trip to Washington State. In ONE day we drove and visited a lot in ten hours, but we only went 90 highway miles. We have been going to the Oregon Coast to visit family and explore since 1967. Mostly we rushed up and back and stayed in one or two spots with family while we amassed a huge bucket list of POI between here and Florence OR. While our DDs will have to go see them on their own, WE and the DGD saw many of them.
Things and interests change, life time goals do to, so we don't judge our travel experiences against others, we just have our Great Affair.
