Category: Travel to and from Alaska
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Stormy Day Two, Z-ville to Central IL
What a wet windy day. Rain, snow, 50 mph gusts. We adjusted our route to head west (instead of northwest) to avoid the worst of it. The motto of the day was “we’re having an adventure!” My Aunt D kindly hosted us for the night. Allowing for rain and wind, we hoped to arrive around…
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Day One, Luray to Zanesville
The trip has begun! Hearing the truck strain pulling the trailer over the mountains & into a head wind on US Highway 48 was stressful enough that it was hard to truly enjoy the beautiful scenery, majestic windmills and 4 lane road with little traffic. Only 9.5 mpg, yikes. Honestly, the morning wasn’t much fun,…
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Packing to Live in an Alaskan Dry Cabin for 6 months
The cabin we rented is 310 square feet. We wonder, will we wish we brought more (more warm clothes perhaps)? Or will we wish we brought less (where are we going to put clothes – our bedroom closet is 26” wide). Our current home is a normal 1430 square feet PLUS an unfinished basement. Here…
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Countdown to March 2
Thank goodness we haven’t left for Alaska already as originally planned. Widespread snow storms and blizzards are currently stretching along much of our driving route (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Canada, Alaska). Rather than huddling up somewhere waiting for the conditions to improve, we are in balmy Virginia (77F today!). Today I worked…
Me & C 