Hi, Superstock! My husband Don and I are planning a long (110-day) driving trip throughout Alaska next summer, departing our home base of Denver CO May 28-29, heading north through Wyoming, Montana, Canada etc and arriving Alaska in about 3 weeks after leaving home. We really don't want to have to drive hard and long every single day, so we plan to stay in one place for 2-4 days at least every 6-9 days. Road-weariness makes a long trip a lot less fun for us, we've learned. We need time to hang out and do nothing fairly often, even if it is just to wash the clothes and read a book, or take a bunch of walks and hikes for a couple of days without having to be anywhere on a schedule.
I am posting our planned itinerary on the RV Forum site for trips...see the thread I started a while back. For me, the planning is more than half the fun. I've had a blast reading Milepost, Frommers, 3 camping NW and camping Alaska books, Michener's Alaska, Berton's Klondike Fever, McPhee's Coming Into The Country, the novels Tisha; Sitka; Two Old Women. I've made extensive notes of places and things we want to see & visit.
After driving "over the hump" up into Alaska and down to the Kenai Peninsula and Homer, we figured we might be getting a bit road-weary, so we're then driving to Whittier, where we'll take our RV on the ferry to Juneau. For all of Southeast Alaska, we will "ferry-hop" with our RV from place to place, staying in each place.... Haines, Skagway, Juneau, Petersburg, Sitka, Wrangell and Ketchikan....2 to 5 days, depending on how much of interest seemed to be at each location. The cost of doing it this way is very affordable...we have a 25-foot Itasca Reyo 25T vehicle. At the end, we will ferry from Prince George to Port Hardy BC and take a week to drive the length of Vancouver Island.
Stay in touch regarding your plans...maybe we can meet up somewhere if our paths cross....
Salty Adventurer (Susan Alt Johnson)
Denver CO and Silverthorne CO
Itasca Reyo 25T 2013, Mercedes diesel Sprinter