I thought I'd drop a note about the trip we just finished. We left home on May 17th, and returned on September 10th. I'd have liked to spend another month in the west when the Fall colors were nice, but Betty wanted to go to work on her flower beds and she wasn't going to let a little September heat in TX stop her.
We drove a total of 18,627 miles, of which about 12,400 was towing the trailer. We burned a total of 1558 gallons of Diesel, for an average of 11.95mpg. The average cost of fuel was $3.267 per gallon. The most we paid was $1.10 per liter in the Yukon, which figures about $4.16 per gallon. The 100 gallons of diesel we can carry really helped us from filling up in the middle of nowhere where the cost is much higher.
We traveled most of the highways in Alaska including the Dalton Hwy (without the trailer) to Deadhorse. We drove on lots of gravel roads, but the only long one where we pulled the trailer was the Top of the World Hwy from Dawson Creek YT, to Chicken AK, with a side trip to Eagle.
We traveled the Alaska Hwy on the way up and came back on the Cassiar, which was closed a good part of the time due to fires.
We had one flat on the trailer and none on the truck. It went down over night, so there was no damage to the tire and it was able to be fixed. I had put a new set of 10 ply Hercules tires on the trailer before we left and they held up very well. The converter on the trailer stopped charging the battery in the YT on the way back, so we charged the battery manually when we were stopped for more than two nights for the rest of the trip.
We couldn't have been happier with how the whole rig performed. Good trip, but we're glad to be home.
We drove a total of 18,627 miles, of which about 12,400 was towing the trailer. We burned a total of 1558 gallons of Diesel, for an average of 11.95mpg. The average cost of fuel was $3.267 per gallon. The most we paid was $1.10 per liter in the Yukon, which figures about $4.16 per gallon. The 100 gallons of diesel we can carry really helped us from filling up in the middle of nowhere where the cost is much higher.
We traveled most of the highways in Alaska including the Dalton Hwy (without the trailer) to Deadhorse. We drove on lots of gravel roads, but the only long one where we pulled the trailer was the Top of the World Hwy from Dawson Creek YT, to Chicken AK, with a side trip to Eagle.
We traveled the Alaska Hwy on the way up and came back on the Cassiar, which was closed a good part of the time due to fires.
We had one flat on the trailer and none on the truck. It went down over night, so there was no damage to the tire and it was able to be fixed. I had put a new set of 10 ply Hercules tires on the trailer before we left and they held up very well. The converter on the trailer stopped charging the battery in the YT on the way back, so we charged the battery manually when we were stopped for more than two nights for the rest of the trip.
We couldn't have been happier with how the whole rig performed. Good trip, but we're glad to be home.
