05-29-2024, 10:20 AM
I find the drive through Canada mostly uninteresting.
If it were a 8-12 hours of driving it would hold my interest. It's not it's 2500 miles with huge sections of the same thing all day. I try to drive less than 300 miles a day, so an 8 day adventure. Interrupted by bad road pot holes and flying rocks, and the ever present pastime of the north, road construction, one lane travel, waiting for your turn.
Don't get me wrong is it breath taking at times, it just those times are spaced well apart.
I encourage you do do it once, its a grand adventure, just plan for more time than normal driving.
I have driven the Glenn highway in Alaska many dozens of times from Tok to Anchorage.
It has much the same breathtaking vistas in 350 miles. Combine that with the Parks highway and you'll have gotten the true sense of the AlCan.
I doubt I'll ever drive my coach back home to AK.
I know many folks that commute annually from AK to AZ in Country Coaches or Prevost
All just my jaded opinion.
If it were a 8-12 hours of driving it would hold my interest. It's not it's 2500 miles with huge sections of the same thing all day. I try to drive less than 300 miles a day, so an 8 day adventure. Interrupted by bad road pot holes and flying rocks, and the ever present pastime of the north, road construction, one lane travel, waiting for your turn.
Don't get me wrong is it breath taking at times, it just those times are spaced well apart.
I encourage you do do it once, its a grand adventure, just plan for more time than normal driving.
I have driven the Glenn highway in Alaska many dozens of times from Tok to Anchorage.
It has much the same breathtaking vistas in 350 miles. Combine that with the Parks highway and you'll have gotten the true sense of the AlCan.
I doubt I'll ever drive my coach back home to AK.
I know many folks that commute annually from AK to AZ in Country Coaches or Prevost
All just my jaded opinion.
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