buchanan said:
what area are u going to where u need so much off?
Russian River, Seward, Nenana..........
I was told the state bird of Alaska was the mosquito.
buchanan said:
I don't understand the carry cash deal but to each their own but it proves to u what I said,
No fees but a most terrible exchange rate.There making 4-5% on the exchange so no wonder they don't need to show it as a CC charge
Like I said, I'd still get the crappy exchange rate if I exchanged at my bank for cash.
If I run across somewhere I can get a better exchange rate, I may reconsider. I'm figuring I'll have to buy about 250 gallons of gas in Canada. I may enjoy the trip better if I don't worry about saving what few bucks I could save on that.
Daddo said:
Fort Nelson and Watson Lake are about 320 miles apart so if you fill in one, you'll have enough to get you through to the other. Fuel up here in Canada is always more expensive that in the US but further up north on the Alcan it get even worse. The price for regular gas in Fort Nelson today is $1.52 per liter (1 US gallon = 3.785 liters). At today's currency rate of 0.92, that works out to $6.29 per US gallon.
Since you've mentioned going through Alberta, it's worth noting that fuel prices in Alberta are also lower than here in BC.
If you want to work out your fuel costs you can use sites like GasBuddy.com to get the local prices in a given city and then one of the conversion tables available on the web. I used
http://www.mississauga4sale.com/Gasoline-Conversion-Calculator-litres-gallons-us.htm for the above conversion. It converse the liters to US gallons and you insert the current currency conversion rate for the monitory data.
I plan to go about 400 miles between fill-ups, so I think I'll shoot for something like this for gas:
Conrad, Mt gas in Conrad 3.46 US
Conrad to Banff 335 miles gas in Banff 4.50 US
Banff to Grande Prairie 424 miles gas in Grande Prairie 4.24 US
Grande Prairie to Fort Nelson 363 miles gas in Fort Nelson 5.21 US
Fort Nelson to Watson Lake 319 miles gas in Watson Lake 4.77 US
Watson Lake to Whitehorse 386 miles gas in Whitehorse 4.77 US
Whitehorse to Tok 318 miles gas in Tok 4.00 US
Of course if I see something better along the way, I'll stop there.
Hopefully, gas doesn't go up too much in the next few weeks.