Upgrade for Alaska?

4X4Dodger wrote:

tonymull wrote:

4X4Dodger wrote:

bob_nestor wrote:
Is that 30-40 days IN Alaska, or 30-40 days for travel AND time in Alaska? The trip from VA is probably going to take 2 weeks each way and those will be long days. You might be able to reduce that to about 10 days travel one way, but those are going to long travel days. Assuming 2 weeks travel one way then your time in Alaska is going to be 0-10 days if your estimate includes travel time. Remember too that a lot of the hiways you'll be traveling in Canada have a speed limit of 100Kph or 62 Mph.

Washington DC to Anchorage is 4,346 miles. At a very reasonable 500 miles per day that is only 9 days of travel. Even if you cut the last 1200 miles down to 250 miles a day. (the highway) you are still nowhere near 2 weeks to get to Alaska.

Seattle to Anchorage is 2900 miles not 1200. If you're going to enjoy any of it that is a 10 day trip in itself in my experience. Sure you can do it in 5 or 6 but BC is just as great as Alaska, why miss it? And 45mph is a realistic goal once you pass Kamloops, that 62mph limit is irrelevant. I remember spending a whole afternoon just waiting for bison to get off the road.

I said the "Highway" It starts in Dawson Creek, not Seattle And coming from Virginia you would not go anywhere near Seattle. Coming from Virginia you would probably enter BC at Dawson Creek from Alberta on Hwy 43.

It seemed to me from the OP that the goal was to spend as much time in Alaska as Possible not getting there. While parts of BC are very nice, I think the Yukon and Alaska is still one up the scale.

I stick by my driving times its all doable speed limits included.