| Tuesday, July 26, 2005 |
14:50 - I've heard all this before
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/arctic/index.htm
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My brother Mike sends this illustrated travelogue of a couple doing the Alaska Highway in 1999, following a route almost eerily similar to the one I've got planned. True, they didn't do Denali or Anchorage or the Gold Rush interior, and they came at it from Texas rather than California—but everything else is in there, including the Alaska Ferry leg on the way back, prior preventive car maintenance, and even the day trip to Barrow from Fairbanks.
What's more, they did the entire Alaska Highway in three days. Here I've been fretting about being able to make it in four... and these guys averaged 700-800 miles per day, even taking into account construction and sightseeing. I suppose it helps to be able to roll into a town at 11:00 PM and get a motel room. They didn't even get on the road typically until 9 or 10...
I'm gonna print out these pages and take them with me.
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Brian Tiemann
