Upgrade for Alaska?
Ok we are trying again to assemble a whirlwind trip(we only have 30-40 days) to Alaska. We purchased a TT a few years ago and did a 7000mi cross country trip towing it with our Excursion. We figured...
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petrel wrote:Tee Jay wrote:
Just the to and from totals about 12,000 miles or more depending on route. That would be a minimum of 300 miles a day for 40 days. Trying for 10 days each way would be 600 miles a day. You will be beat to pulp upon arrival.
We do Alaska every year and 500 miles in northern BC, the Yukon, and Alaska is a 12 hour trip.
Thank you for sharing your experience. So the variable a noob like me is not seeing is that there will be considerable distances that cannot be traversed at much more than 40mph?
Yes, there are definitely sections that you're going to go a lot slower on.
And it's very hard to make 300 miles a day when you stop to see anything. Are you going to drive right by the Grizzlies and Bison on the side of the road? Canada has just as much to see as Alaska, but a lot of people get the idea that they have to get to Alaska and just want to drive as fast as they can through Canada.
I'd suggest you make this trip just about Canada. See Banff, Jasper, the Ice Fields, the wine country down by Kelowna, the rail museum and hydro dam on the Columbia River at Revelstoke - take time to see things and have a RELAXING trip. Then plan on going to Alaska on another trip and hitting up some of things you missed in Canada.
Bill
