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dave
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Does anyone know of a shipping company that will transport an rv down the inside passage and let you live in it during the trip?
Rob and Darleen
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We're planning this trip this year and welcome all this and any other advice. Thanks Darrell and Mary for your advice, we also travel with 2 labradors and we're also retired.
Lori
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We're debating between driving the Alaskan Hwy in a small car with great gas mileage and staying in hotels along the way, or pulling our 26 foot travel trailer to save hotel costs. Any recommendations from those who have driven the Alaskan Hwy would be deeply appreciated. Please email me at mikebandlorip@aol.com
Mike
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I'd love to hear more firsthand accounts on driving the Alaskan Highway from Washington to Anchorage/Fairbanks, etc. Please email me at Mikebandlorip@aol.com
Rob
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Our first trip up here was in 2004. We are presently living in Sitka, will head up to Anchorage this summer, then back to the lower 48 for next winter.
First, as Darrell and Mary said, get the Milepost. It comes out in March. If this is your first trip up, get the current edition.
The road is all paved, except where it is not!! What I mean is you will have construction zones that are not paved. I carry a small electric power washer to clean up the rig.
Once you get into the zone that has the frost heaves, slow down. The heaves come up on you fast and can really create some problems with your rig. Last summer the Tok cutoff (Tok to Glenallen) was under a major rebuild just west of Tok. We got through on a Sunday without too much trouble. Check your Milepost for the latest.
If you like to drive late, no problem, it doesn't get dark till August!
The Marine Highway is interesting, but very expensive. It will cost me $750, one way, to get two adults and our 5th wheel from Sitka, to Haines.
If anyone would like more info, contact me at alaskain2004@yahoo.com
BTW, I feel that Jerry's solution to rocks is inciteful, dangerous, and unnecessary.
Darrell and Mary
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Drove from Florida to Alaska in 99 and 04. Now we want to go again this year, most wonderful and beautiful trips we ever took. Take your time and camp at many beautiful lakeside parks in Canada. My dad homesteaded in 47 in Alaska and its a thrill to return. We travel with two labradors, both of us are retired me in my 60's and husband in 70's. Only drive 200-300 miles a day and stop alot to take pictures. It's a once in a lifetime trip for some folks, but a trip worth taking. All paved all the way, better road than many here stateside. Get the Alaska Milepost to find everything along the way. Life is too short to not do it.
Jerry
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The best way to slow down the on-coming rock throwers is to pull over in the middle of the road. I have scared the h**l out of a few doing this, however they do slow down or pull off the road and stop. I just ignore the one finger salutes.
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