Just a couple of comments, if that is possible for me. Adventurer RVs were originally a Canadian company that changed ownership and was moved to Washington, maybe 5 years ago.
Turbo Dude, if you are 76 years of age, your health, like mine, is not going to significantly improve with increasing age. Short of having something done like a heart ablation process, following an unsuccessful cardioversion, to correct the under lying problem, you might as well get on with your life, as best one can. For older people, I am 72, to wait for their health to improve before doing something on their bucket list, that they are capable of doing, isn't a very good bet, IMHO.
The very few of those that don't enjoy the drive to northern Canada and Alaska, appear to be those that really don't have any planned reason for wanting to do the drive. Just to get to Alaska, flying is much quicker and probably cheaper to do than driving. As mentioned, the trip up and back is just as spectacular as getting there. But I feel a person(s) need to have some need that the drive up and back will take care of for them. Some folks really don't seem to think the entire trip through very completely. If all a person is going for is a specific reason, such as to take a photo of Mount McKinley, and it is a rainy or smokey summer, then their trip is not going to be a very positive experience for them.
While I love the drive, my wife, whom I met and married in Alaska, both our daughters were born in Fairbanks, she, gets tired of the drive so will on occasion, fly one leg of the trip, either back from Anchorage or meet me in Anchorage. It works for us and we have been married just over 40 years. Of course I can cook and have done all the cooking since we have been married and know how to run a washing machine. So I am one of those rare men that can travel by themselves and not starve or be knee deep in dirty clothes. LOL
Our last 4 trips have been by truck camper but the most trips I have done are in a mid sized Class C bunk model. (roughly 25 ft) but have done the trip in a 5th wheel and a Class A. So it just depends on what I own at the time we are going. The vehicle I am driving has had little impact, positive or negatively, on the pleasure received from the trip. Now that we have both a TC and a 5th wheel, with just the two of us, it works well to use the TC. However we have discussed taking the 5th wheel next time, probably next summer.
It is the trip of a life time, but one a person can take over and over again, as many of the forum members have done over the years.
joe b.
Stuart Florida
Formerly of Colorado and Alaska
2016 Fleetwood Flair 31 B Class A w/bunks
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