Prepping my Caravan for my Alaska adventure
My full-time home is a Class A RV. It’s very comfortable when parked and set up, but with its size and the 6-7mpg it gets, except for numerous month-long relocations, I explore in my 25mpg Dodge Carav...
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Hi all y’all,
I’m back from my Alaska Highway road trip adventure. Between May 1st and June 27th I drove 12,300 miles. The trip went from southeast Arizona up through Utah, Idaho, Montana, the Canadian Rockies, the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek to its historical terminus in Delta Junction AK (I also took a side-trip to Skagway AK), on to Fairbanks AK, to Denali, then Anchorage and next to Homer AK and back to Anchorage. During my return to Sierra Vista I drove back to Fairbanks then to Delta Junction, down to Valdez AK, from Valdez north to Chicken AK, east to Dawson City YT on the Top of the World (Klondike) Highway, next to Whitehorse YT and then south through BC to Cache Creek BC where I turned east to revisit Banff National Park in Alberta Canada (my wonderful daughter Margot flew in from Los Angeles and treated me to a Father’s Day weekend at a Banff B&B on a horse ranch). After Banff and Father’s Day I continued south through Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona to Sierra Vista. During my journey, besides driving the Alaska Highway, I visited the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Wrangle-St. Elias, Denali, Banff, Jasper, Yoho, Kootenay, Mt. Revelstoke, Glacier (Canadian & US), and Waterton Lakes National Parks. I toured a sternwheeler river boat and a huge gold mining dredge in Dawson City and a preserved ghost town in Bannack Montana. Of lessor interest I suppose was that I was finally able to visit an area in Montana and another area in British Columbia that were written about in two of my favorite childhood books.
FWIW, even though my Caravan had 189,000 miles on it to start the only problems I encountered was a flat tire that I repaired myself and I carelessly locked myself out in a mosquito infested Glacier NP campground. However, once I found a wire coat hanger and borrowed a screwdriver and plyers, it took me less than 5 minutes to get into my locked car. I’m pleased to say that my Caravan still gets over 10,000 miles per quart of oil.
I’m currently taking it easy in Sierra Vista AZ. In August I’m relocating in my RV to Ruidoso NM and hopefully cooler weather.
Steve
I’m back from my Alaska Highway road trip adventure. Between May 1st and June 27th I drove 12,300 miles. The trip went from southeast Arizona up through Utah, Idaho, Montana, the Canadian Rockies, the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek to its historical terminus in Delta Junction AK (I also took a side-trip to Skagway AK), on to Fairbanks AK, to Denali, then Anchorage and next to Homer AK and back to Anchorage. During my return to Sierra Vista I drove back to Fairbanks then to Delta Junction, down to Valdez AK, from Valdez north to Chicken AK, east to Dawson City YT on the Top of the World (Klondike) Highway, next to Whitehorse YT and then south through BC to Cache Creek BC where I turned east to revisit Banff National Park in Alberta Canada (my wonderful daughter Margot flew in from Los Angeles and treated me to a Father’s Day weekend at a Banff B&B on a horse ranch). After Banff and Father’s Day I continued south through Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona to Sierra Vista. During my journey, besides driving the Alaska Highway, I visited the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Wrangle-St. Elias, Denali, Banff, Jasper, Yoho, Kootenay, Mt. Revelstoke, Glacier (Canadian & US), and Waterton Lakes National Parks. I toured a sternwheeler river boat and a huge gold mining dredge in Dawson City and a preserved ghost town in Bannack Montana. Of lessor interest I suppose was that I was finally able to visit an area in Montana and another area in British Columbia that were written about in two of my favorite childhood books.
FWIW, even though my Caravan had 189,000 miles on it to start the only problems I encountered was a flat tire that I repaired myself and I carelessly locked myself out in a mosquito infested Glacier NP campground. However, once I found a wire coat hanger and borrowed a screwdriver and plyers, it took me less than 5 minutes to get into my locked car. I’m pleased to say that my Caravan still gets over 10,000 miles per quart of oil.
I’m currently taking it easy in Sierra Vista AZ. In August I’m relocating in my RV to Ruidoso NM and hopefully cooler weather.
Steve
