Friday, July 13, 2012

Great Alaskan Road Trip: Week 9 Roundup

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Each Friday, I post some relevant (and not-so-relevant) stats about the trip, as well as a little write-up of what it’s like to live out of a van for weeks on end. Here’s where we are overall:

  • Total miles driven: 5902
  • Total miles by ferry: 489  
  • Total days on the road: 59
  • Total nights in a hotel:
  • Total miles hiked: 82.3

Here are some interesting stats for this week:
  • Fuel stops: 3 (diesel: $5.23 / gallon in Haines, AK; $4.27 in Tok, AK; $4.06 in Fairbanks)
  • Technical issues: 1 (The plastic cap on our gray/blackwater dump valve is broken – a consequence of driving on bumpy gravel roads.  We’re not sure if this will pose a problem or not – the dump shutoff valves for both black and gray water still work fine so we won’t be leaking wastewater as we drive down the highway or anything.)
  • National Park Service sites visited: 1 – Kluane National Park (Canada)
  • Bears sighted: 2 (We saw them in the Yukon Territory. We have yet to see a bear in Alaska, though.)
  • Reindeer sighted: 3 – at Santa’s house in North Pole, Alaska.  I guess they were molting, but they look a lot like zombies from The Walking Dead.

By the time you read this post we will be in Denali National Park.  We plan on staying 5 or six days there.  We won’t have power, water, or internet there so you probably won’t see any activity on the blog during that time.  But I’ll be writing a new post offline each day we’re there and I’ll upload them once we are back in civilization.    

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