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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PA12DRVR wrote:Couldn't agree more. On our 2013 RV trip, I went back to Valdez for the first time in 40 years and couldn't imagine why I waited so long. Although Valdez has grown (there was no Alyeska pipeline terminal in 1973), I now prefer it to anywhere on the Kenai.
Probably some sort of heresy, but if I had limited time: I'd skip any part of the Kenai Peninsula except for a day or a few in Seward and concentrate on Valdez/PWS instead; I'd skip spending anytime in Fairbanks other than to restock and pass-through and would instead spend a longer time in the McKinley area, Valdez, and I'd skip Anchorage except as a pass-through.
And I had to spend so much time in Anchorage when I was working in Alaska that on our way to the Kenai we just stopped for some stocking up and an anniversary dinner at Simon & Seafort's. On the way back through a few weeks later, our only Anchorage stops were at traffic lights.
