RV trip from SoCal to North Pole Alaska

[Winston]

We're in Alaska now . . . left Michigan May 9th . . . so clearly we're in Davydd's camp - - three weeks will be a challenge. But just decide on a few important objectives for this trip and save the remainder for that 'revisit' when you have more time.

Don't expect to make-up 'time' by driving fast. In no place have we seen roads that can transition from the 'perfect' to the axel-bending in an instant. We've met two couples this summer who could not stop or otherwise avoid sudden damaged road segments and ended up with broken leaf springs and axels etc. One couple got lucky, they were within walking distance of a logging camp and discovered that one of its members was in a major city picking up supplies . . . a quick phone call and the new leaf spring, axel and other components were hand-carried to their stricken rig within a couple of days.

Keep in touch, maybe we can rendezvous. We're taking the ferry from Whittier on August 8th to Juneau. At some point thereafter we'll have to take the ferry either to Haines or, more likely, to Skagway . . . then we're uncertain whether to head back to the lower 48, or return to Whitehorse (Yukon) and on to Dawson City . . . so our paths could cross.