i have been procrastinating a drive to alaska to see my mom who resides there.
Things got awkward when I was about seven years old and mom lost custody me and my brother zac. We moved with our retiring attorney grandfather to a heavily tourist ed honolulu hawaii.
meanwhile, Mom proceeded to lose first her house and then her sanity ,and she as the stress her rotten life caught up to her, as a bag lady, entered the ranks of anchorage’s homeless with the drunk eskimo vagrants .
half of a decade of church sleeping elapsed and, mom finally managed to pull something together and was vagrant no more.
now, due to a large sum of litigation funds awarded her by a suite filed almost thirty years prior, she owns her own apartment.
she gets a disability check and mostly does pretty well, but she is getting older and i think sometimes that i might regret not having known her better if she croaks before I get up there to spend some real time.
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I want to drive to Alaska too. I’m 55 and will retire two years from now. We’ll be packed and ready to go April 2010. Two years of study and research should be enough to prepare for this adventure. From 2010 to 2012 we’ll have two years to explore the world before Nibiru returns. Hopefully that’s just hype but it may not be. Search on Nibiriu to see what I mean.
I have a 2008 Toyota Tundra Crewmax 5.7 liter monster. Now I need a trailer. I’ve been searching whether I should buy a motorhome or trailer. What’s your opinion guys? Bigfoot trailers and motorhomes attract me at this point.
Anyway, I’ll have to investigate this web site more to know what to do next.
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I’m winding down a winter long break from work and have decided to finish up with a Chattanooga to Alaska road trip! I’ll cross into Canada and take a route up through Calgary to Fairbanks, enjoy a couple of days in the Anchorage region, then return to Seattle going south on the AlCan and on Highway 37.
This would be the ultimate road trip!! The top down on my jeep flying down the Alaskan highway…freedom
I made the trip in 1989..in the winter, from California to Delta Junction, Alaska. It was awesome. Two years later, we drove back down to Washington..again, awesome. I’d encourage anyone who was thinking about it to do it.
Wowy, the time for my dad’s move to Alaska is coming up verrry quick! We are going to leave in a week and drive up the Al-Can highway from Minneapolis. We will go to Fairbanks to visit my brother and his girlfriend before reaching our final destination of Anchorage, where my mom lives. Anyone with advice, come forward please! We will be driving an Explorer and hauling a trailer full of stuff.
I drove the Al-Can hiway in the spring of ‘04. I was captivated by the quiet beauty in solitude and made giddy by the midnight sun. The trip was well worth it and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
my dad and i went this past summer. Sure, it only took us a week, but still. it was incredible! and alaska, beautiful. but the canadians were jerks to us. =/
I’m planning to take 3-4 months off work when I turn 50 (I’m 48 now) and drive to Alaska and around the country in a big pickup truck with a camper on the back, with my dog and my partner. This is my “Travels with Charley” dream.
I don’t know if my company will give me a sabbatical, so I have to decide if I am willing to risk my job for this dream.
