Alaska Gathering?

  • Dave - Thanks for chipping in! :shake hands:
  • Since you have so much to offer all in one place, Juneau might be a good choice. Folks could stop there as a final destination or make Juneau a stop on a longer vacation.
  • Besides, I'd get to ride the ferry again. Made one winter voyage from Bellingham to Haines with a stay in Juneau. It was one of the best trips ever.
  • Since you're the resident transportation guy and surely most familiar with the ferry system, maybe you could expound on the various route possibilities (including British Columbia & Prince Rupert)?
  • Fred
  • Gone fishin'
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Maybe if you could build a bunck of tears that folks could rent after they fly up there.
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  • Kerry - Missed that one before. Only if you promise to take them back home! :)
 
Definatly wait until 07 or 08 if you plan an event, so those of us that have a long ways to go can make plans.

A buddy and I rode our Harleys up the Alcan, and came back on the Cassiar (when it was still gravel) in 92, and had a great time. Odie and I have been planning to pull our 5th wheel up and spend a month on the road some day, but with fuel prices, we have been putting it off. A teardrop event would definatly be more affordable (and probably mere fun!). Maybe a teardrop caravan up (or back) on the Alcan or Cassiar?
 
That sounds like a trip we could get into also!! My parents have been to Alaska and I wanna go too!! 8) 8) :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 
Say y'all...let's start getting some thoughts down on some paremeters for a gathering. I'll start putting together a .pdf of driving times, ferry costs if I can get some input...here's some initial thoughts I had (keeping in mind I've never participated in something like this)...

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1. Alaska is a big, big state and is pretty far away. It would be good to be able to accomodate folks on different schedules, time frames, and routes and meet at a location and travel a few days as a big caravan.

2. It would be good to have separate smaller caravans coming up from say...Glacier/Waterton via Calgary, Banff, and Jasper....up the Marine Highway from Bellingham, WA...and say from Seattle up through Kamloops

3. An ending point in Alaska (or in the Yukon) would be good so that travellers with time could go on and caravan on for Anchorage, Seward, Homer, the Dalton Highway, etc. and points beyond.

4. Comments on must see, or must do, would help...for instance...from Whitehorse, you can easily schedule some great canoe trips down the Yukon and meet up with fellow campers at a predetermined sites.

Thoughts????

Best Wishes and this would be a great time!!!...Juneaudave
 
I was thinking about a figure 8...drive to Seattle and catch the boat to Juneau...hangout...catch the boat to ??? to get a hi-way to the interior...do a rendezvous somewhere and gather up somewhere around???....come back to the north end of Marine Highway and ferry back to above Juneau and head back inland to the south and the USA....really long trip but...WOW
madjack 8)
 
Dear All,

If you can start with some potential journeys and plans like Madjack has. I can get Internet Trip Tiks From AAA for free. These will include Maps, mileage, points of interest, ferry schedules, campgrounds, tolls, etc.

They are very good. It is one of the benefits for tha premium membership, which I have to have travelling the country in my truck.

So ask away, and I will get it for you, personalized from your home and your waypoints.Remember it does not have to your final plan. I can save each person's trip tik and just make adjustments as you make them. As Doug says the process and the planning is a great part of the fun.

And now this thread is really flying.


BTW, Veterans with any service-connected disability travel the Alaska Marine Highway for a 50% discount, and anyone with a 70% disability also travels for 50%.
 
I would have to take out a second mortgage to make that trip. And it would take me two weeks just to GET there.

I WANNA GO! WAHHHH!!!!!!

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Well, Fred, you poked a stick in the bee hive and look at the response you got. :LOL: Maybe some of those banjo pickin guys will come also and we'll really have grand ole time. :applause:

Jim, on the Kenai Peninsula . . . .
 
WOW, would we love to make that trip! We took the Boy Scouts to Alaska in 2000 for 2 weeks and had a BLAST!!! There were 35 of us that went. A teardrop trip would be fantastic. We flew into a fish camp and stayed for a week, and the second week we backpacked the Resurrection Pass Trail in Jim's neck of the woods on the Kenai Peninsula. Spent a couple of days bumming around Anchorage before we returned. What a beautiful place.

We're like Ira, we have a far away starting point, but don't count us out. Side will be retired then, and I'll be so damn close I won't really care!!!

:cheerswine:

sid n side
 
You guys are breakn' my heart! :( I'd sure like to take that trip. What a blast for a bunch to get together and journey up there. Oh well, when I win the lottery! :laughter: :laughing1:
 
Chris C":1y2i3eiu said:
You guys are breakn' my heart! :( Oh well, when I win the lottery! :laughter: :laughing1:
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This is coming from the guy that just got back from the Western Carribean, then went to Branson? :yes:
 
Frankly, the Caribbean tain't what it's cracked up to be! Least wise, not for me. But I did enjoy the splendor of the ship. Yup, Branson was fun, while we weren't dodging tornadoes and the hail that tore up my Honda. :LOL:
 
I'd like to suggest that Dave, Jim and Fred talk things over....
I could be wrong but it looks like all three of them are separated by quite a bit of travel time.
Dave being the farthest South in Juneau.
Jim being in the middle and a bit to the West on the Kenai Pennisula.
Fred being a bit to the North, maybe just a tad East, right???
****... I'd be happy just to make it to Juneau, with a stop in Sitka...
I'll take a bull horn with me and tell everyone in Sitka that Guy is a friend of mine. :LOL: (Just kidding)
 
Good news, bad news reality check


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Bad news first...I'm a bit concerned over the cost to take the Alaska Marine Highway...it's over $2000 for a tow vehicle/tear combo with 2 people from Bellingham WA to Juneau and then up to Haines (and when I checked for June, you couldn't get a cabin for the three day trip (You sleep in a Solarium in a tent). That's a bunch of spare change. I think we definately need to plan for a 2007 trip for reservations on the ferry, and have options for people to drive.

Other bad news...it's about 2300 miles (one way) from Seattle to Fairbanks. That really puts pressure on a two week vacation, especially for those who might want to hit Denali NP, or go above the Arctic Circle, etc.

:D

Now for the good news....if we shoot for 2007, we can plan something sufficeintly flexible to fit everyones schedules.

If we go around June-ish... we could drive till midnight, play golf till 3 AM, have breakfast, fish till 6:00 am in the morning...and never be out of daylight!

I think that all Dave, Jim and Fred would need to get some ideas out is an understanding on what everyone would like to do!!!

I'm posting a new post on "Suggest a Gather" entitled "If I went on a caravan to Alaska, I would want to...." Lets get some ideas out there!!!
 
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