Alaska Highways

Neil you won't like the drive at all. You should stay home.
John
"Neil Harris" <plushkin@> wrote in message
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> I read somewhere that the the Alaska Highway is gravel in parts and
> very bumpy, something I do not like at all. Is this true or is the
> highway toatally asphalted?
> Has anyone travelled the Alaskan Highway recently, if so how were the
> conditions of the road.
> We are interested in going spring of 2004.

"John Lindsey" <FLYRODbassrecord@m> wrote in message
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> Neil you won't like the drive at all. You should stay home.
> John

You may be correct. Talked to a friend yesterday that is a caravan leader,
and he just returned from an Alaska Caravan. He said some of the roads were
worse this year than they were back in 1994, 95 and 96 when they were
re-routing major portions of the road. That, said, we plan to go to Alaska
again next year, but we do bad roads every year, and this year was Mexico! ;-(

Tom J

"John Lindsey" <FLYRODbassrecord@m> wrote in message
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> If you like to fish or just enjoy wonderful scenery, take the Cassiar
> Highway up and back. It's shorter but the roads are worse so the Neils of
> the world are more scarce on the Cassiar. We had a 9 bear day on the
> Cassiar which was a highlight of the trip!

The most bears we ever saw at one time was north of Hyder where the creek
crosses the mining road just before it starts up the mountain. They were
salmon fishing and we lost count after 10 or 12 jumped in, caught a fish and
retreated back into the woods.

We will decide in the next 30 days whether we are going for sure again next
year.

Tom J

"Will Sill" <will@epix.net> wrote in message
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> It's been several years since we enjoyed a trip to AK, but at that
> time we were advised that AAA did NOT offer roadside assistance and
> that towing service inside the state would run about $5 per round trip
> mile - for a car! I doubt the price has fallen.

Some of the RV road service insurers do cover Canada and Alaska. I had
problems about half way between Dawson City and the Artic Circle and they came
to the rescue. A couple I was camping next to called their road service when
they broke down 25 miles from Valdez and they got service. Both of us had RRR
at the time, which is now Camping World Towing service.

We would never travel without a fresh copy of Milepost, even if traveling in a
caravan.

Tom J