wintersun wrote:
Calculate the cost to fly to Anchorage and rent a motorhome instead. The cost will be no more and you will spend twice as much of your trip in Alaska instead of motoring back and forth across the USA.
I have rented a motorhome in Alaska 4 times and spent only one day getting to Anchorage and been able to pick up the RV the same day as I arrived and drop it off the same day that we have flown home. I have done the same in Canada, picking up 1-ton 4WD trucks with cabover campers in Calgary.
For me it's about the journey not just the destination. I would never leave my Collies at home they enjoy going on a trip as much as I. There is no one way that works for everybody.