Roll Call Alaska 2013
Just thought I'd start a thread regarding who will be starting up to Alaska in 2013. It would be nice if we could share information so everyone has a memorable and safe trip. We will be leaving aroun...
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sanjim wrote:
We are excited about our first trip to Alaska inJuly, 2013. Can use any tips for a good trip. I love the forums, so much good information, but sometimes I get confused - there's so much!!! We begin retirement in June, can hardly wait, this is the beginning of our motor home adventures, hope to have many more in the future. Sure hope to meet some of you along the way. If you see a couple that looks like they might not know what they're doing, that'll probably be us. Stop and say "hi".
So, here's a thought, probably not really a help, but a thought.
I've driven the Alcan (and started long enough ago from the Alaska side that I can call it that :)) some 20-odd times since 1972 with a couple of one-way and part-way trips thrown in. Only one of those trips did not have a deadline and it was the most enjoyable. DW and I headed out from Spokane, WA some years ago with no timeline to get to AK. We ended up missing the kids pretty badly by about Destruction Bay so we accelerated from there, but even with that, I believe we spent 16 - 18 days driving from Spokane to Los Anchorage..wandered all over BC, a good part of the Yukon, and so on.
If there's any way not to have a deadline on your trip, or to put any deadlines off to the bitter end, it will make your trip very enjoyable. I'm anticipating my final retirement in the next several years and that will be my next driving trip to AK, never to see Houston again! For that trip, I'll leave in the spring and plan on being in Alaska sometime before Dec. 31.
