Spring trip Minneapols To Fairbanks Alaska.
Planing to take the AL/CAN HWY. We are going with another couple that will be driving their first RV. A 33Ft C Class on a ford chassis. We will be in our 2000 39Z Bounder DP. What is a reasonabl...
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I figure on ten driving days from south Florida to Fairbanks. But seldom do we drive straight through, so it normally works out to be between two and three weeks. I have done Anchorage to Houston, Texas area in six days, traveling solo, but don't recommend that method. From Fairbanks to Bellingham WA, is about 50 hours driving time. Numerous times my BIL, my SIL and their driving age daughter, would leave Anderson, go to Fairbanks and to the Lower 48, leaving on a Friday after work, and arriving in Bellingham on Sunday evening. Not my style of travel but it worked for them. I am an early riser so will often have driven 250 miles by noon. So much depends on a persons age, their health, their enjoyment of driving, etc. I like to spend my time in Alaska and northern Canada, not taking anymore time than necessary along the way in the lower 48. We keep a list of places that look interesting that we wish to return to, on a different trip.
In the 52 years I have been driving to Alaska, I have done 13 round trips by RV, half a dozen or more by car or truck and about that many by flying airplanes up to Alaska following the Alaska Hwy, for the most part.
I find that at my age, 72, about a ten hour driving day is enough for me. In the lower 48, I can make about 600 miles a day and then drop down to roughly 400 a day in Canada. It varies by trip for us.
In the 52 years I have been driving to Alaska, I have done 13 round trips by RV, half a dozen or more by car or truck and about that many by flying airplanes up to Alaska following the Alaska Hwy, for the most part.
I find that at my age, 72, about a ten hour driving day is enough for me. In the lower 48, I can make about 600 miles a day and then drop down to roughly 400 a day in Canada. It varies by trip for us.
