RetiredGuy
Colorado
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Joined: 09/12/2006
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We are the road back from a trip to Alaska. We left home May 9 and don't expect to get back before the end of September. Our special preparations:
1. Bought a freezer that fits in the FW to bring home 50 pounds of fish.
2. Bought a copy of Milepost and Camping in Alaska by Church.
3. Made reservations at Denali Nat'l Park.
4. Sent emails to many of the places we wanted to visit and got back many brochures before we left home.
5. Loaded up and took off.
We didn't bring extra tires, fan belts, etc. and never needed them. The freezer is full of frozen fish. We found Milepost to be close to useless. Would never buy another one. Too much detail and too much of it out of date; impossible to read while the vehicle is in motion. There are great campgrounds they don't mention as the campground does not advertise. They had ads and writeups for campgrounds that had been closed for several years. Church's book was our bible for finding excellent campgrounds. Wouldn't be without it. Didn't need reservations at Denali but we were there late in the season. We normally called campgrounds a day or two in advance to be sure they had space. Sometimes a caravan pulls into a campground and takes up 20 or so sites. If that happens the campground might be full for a night. Never had a problem finding a place. The brochures were helpful in planning where we wanted to go. At one time we considered a caravan. After seeing them in operation in Alaska, we are very glad we didn’t go that route. Many times caravans would start puling into a campground in the late afternoon with some not getting there until after 10:00 pm. The next morning we would see a herd of people standing around the leader at 7:00 am and then everyone would pull out at 8:00. This is not our idea of fun. We pick places we want to see and spend a few days rather than being on a forced march 12 hours a day. We had and are still having a great time!
Robert
'07 F-350 PSD, SB, SRW, 4X4
'07 HH CE 35 CKQG Plan 2
"Being retired means waking up with nothing to do,
. . . and going to bed with half of it done!"
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bee_46
Jarrettsville, Md
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Joined: 02/03/2005
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We did nothing special for our trip to Alaska. We just used our usual check list for any camping trip. When we took our little dog three years ago, we did make sure we had a full supply of her dog food as she was on an unusual prescription dog food and it was hard to find even in the lower 48. I did try to "dust proof" our pots and pans so I did not have to scrub them all every time we traveled over gravel roads. We found that anything we ran out of or needed was available.
Bobbie
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Nascarcruzin
Home is where the RV is parked.
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bee, You had better luck than us; at the Canadian border we had to dump all our cat food, even what was in their bowls.
Ronnie & Rebecca
Check out our journal: North to Alaska
Another website to view our trip to Alaska:
Adventure to Alaska
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Full-time RVer's since 2004
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