We have driven over 3200 miles and now are sitting back and relaxing while traveling the Alaska Marine Highway.  We saw a whale spouting within the first hour.

We splurged on a cabin rather than camping out in a tent (duct taped to the deck), or rolling a sleeping bag onto a deck chair or floor.  From what we have seen on past trips, people are respectful of others’ belongings, but it is awfully nice to have a cabin for our stuff.

We have some food (raspberries,  muffins, chocolate covered raisins, shrimp ramen cup of soup, microwave popcorn).  However,  we’ve always thought the food in the snack bar and dining room (or cafeteria on most Alaska Ferries) is quite good.  It is also reasonably priced, at least by interior Alaska standards.

When the vessel is underway, we have limited access to the truck.   While we are leaving a lot of our gear in the truck, we aren’t sure we have made the best decision about our frozen venison.

We are bringing about 25 pounds of frozen venison for our meat to eat this summer (especially before we start catching salmon in June).  Our 12V truck freezer holds just over half of the meat.  We have the other half of the meat in a softside cooler that is then placed in a Yeti.  We have switched out the freezer meat and the cooler meat every 1 to 3 days.  (It is variable how quickly the Yeti warms up, depending on the temperature outside).   The temperature inside the Yeti but outside the softsided cooler has got up to 35, but the meat has always been frozen completely solid when we switch.

The freezer is in our room running off AC power.  We left the Yeti in the truck as the surrounding temperature will be cooler than our room.  Hopefully we  don’t need to switch out the meat in the cooler often (or at all!) as access isn’t ideal.

If you are curious about the details keeping the freezer running as we travel,  read on… When we aren’t running the truck,  we switch the power cord for the freezer to our Jackery Explorer 1000, pictured on a 2024 camping trip above.   Once we are driving again, we charge the Jackery and simultaneously the freezer on the truck’s electrical system.