Recap of our Alaska Trip

Now that we are back in the lower 48, I’ll do a recap of our trip.  We left Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, MT on 21 May 2009.  We arrived back in Chewelah, WA on 30 August 2009, 102 days.  We drove 6,483 miles towing our trailer.  We traveled  another 3,542 miles sight seeing and doing other things for a total of 10,025 miles over all kinds of roads.  We stayed in 31 different campgrounds and RV parks.  Some we stayed in more than once. This at a cost of $2,473.67.  We purchased 752 gallons of diesel fuel at a cost of $2,649.46. This comes out to $3.52 average per gallon. We paid the most for fuel in Pelly Crossing, Yukon  - $5.07 per gallon. In Alaska, $4.73 in Cantwell was the most we paid. We purchased the book “Great Alaskan Tour Saver” which has 2-for-1 offers for $99.95. It paid for it’s self very shortly.  I would recommend it to anyone making an extended trip to Alaska.

It was a great trip and it had many days that I thought was the  highlight only to have something occur a few days later that was the highlight.  So we had many highlights.  We had very nice weather the first month of the trip with little rain.  The second and third month we had more rain and cooler weather.  We meet many nice people along the way, and many who gave us information on things to see and places to fish.  We didn’t use all the advice we got. But we were thankful for it.   With this all said we are planning our next trip to Alaska.