Wilson
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I'm glad I found this thread. The wife and I have been planning to do this next summer already...except we were not wanting to do some mad dash to Alaska and did want to take in some sites along the way from Houston to Alaska. Then head up to Fairbanks and up the Dalton Pass some, but I don't need to see where it ends, maybe to Coldfoot or something inside the Arctic Circle just to say we did it, unless everyone wanted to make the 400+ mile trek up to Deadhorse and Prudhoe Bay. We are planning for a around a 3-4 week run from Houston, TX to Alaska and back.
Our trip will head up from Texas through the Rockies of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana into Canada through Calgary and Edmonton on our way up to Fairbanks, AK. On the way back though, we planned to drop down the West Coast and take the PCH down to San Diego and back across through the desert SW. Just to have some different sites to see along the way. All in all, it will be around a 10k mile road trip. So I'm not sure how we could meet up, unless other people were interested in driving up together, but I don't want to do 14hr driving days back to back to back. We want to see some places along the way since I doubt I ever drive to most of these places again.
10k miles divided by 21 days would average out to 475 miles a day where 28 days would lower it to around 350 miles a day. At 60mph, it would require almost 8hrs of driving a day for 21 days or 6hrs a day for 28 days. Some days would be less, some would be more. Just depends on where we are and what there is to see in that area outside of what we see out the windshield. Fuel costs will be upwards of $3,000 and lodging for 21-28 days would be another $2,000-3,000 or so. Food and ******** may cost another $1,000 for two people assuming we pack essential foods so we don't have to eat out or eat at a gas station every meal and take in some continental breakfasts at the hotels when available. Plus whatever else happens along the way and you could easily drop $7,500 on a trip like this.
Easy decision, then. Right?
For a trip like this, that's going to be at least 2 weeks total even for us who live "1 state away" we should start throwing dates out. I know for me personally June would work the best as I have annual trips that fall on big holidays like memorial day weekend and 4th of July.
Yeah, that's a good way to avoid a weeks worth of driving in each direction for sure. Last I checked you can get a truck barged up from the Seattle area for about $1500.I would be tempted to send my truck up on ferry then fly up to meet it.