Budgeting for an Alaska Trip
I'm looking at RVing from Florida to Alaska and back in my fifth wheel. How much money should I budget for a trip like this? I would like to spend at least 10 weeks. My best guess right now is that...
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colliehauler wrote:wintersun wrote: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.
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.
You missed the point. Would you rather spend 2-3 weeks traveling across the USA on the interstates and back, or spend that 2-3 weeks traveling around Alaska? Somehow I do not see traveling through Kansas or Texas as being on par with anywhere I have been in Alaska.
I would also not subject large dogs to spending day after day cooped up inside an RV. I always have opted for a house sitter who looks after my house and my dogs. It is kinder to the dogs.
