Date:         Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:03:53 -0600
Reply-To:     David Etter <detter@MAIL.AURACOM.COM>
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From:         David Etter <detter@MAIL.AURACOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Alaska trip tips
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Where is the sense of Advenure in that. Get the maps from AAA or CAA
and a few brochures and wing-it.  Your world is not governed by other
peoples stone by stone description. It removes all the mystery. Yes..
Read up on the history of the building of the Alaska Highway and then
stop at the many markers along the way and use YOUR thoughts and
imagination.
        It's like the old radio plays, their stage settings were
limited only by your imagination. Camping for the night is anywhere
you get the notion and insect repellant.
        You don't need to relive someone else's journey and the trip
will be nonetheless enjoyable.

                                David (dsl82westy)

In my perhaps not so humble opinion.... having been there last summer
for the second time.

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>
>awright. absolutely first thing you do, before you do ANYthing else
>... to the bus, buy clothes, anything...
>
>go here www.themilepost.com and order a copy of The Milepost
>magazine(book?).
>
>it is amazing. astounding. stupendous. and all them other words. :)
>
>for ONLY $34, you get pictures, maps, km-by-km descriptions of what
>lies on each of a half-dozen routes from the u.s. to alaska, plus
>side-trip highways to Inuvik, Yellowknife, or wherever, ads by the gas
>stations, restaurants, hotels/motels, sight-seeing attractions,
>museums, animals, flowers, rivers, fish, and various oh-look-at-that
>thingies along the way. maps of the cities along the route, even the
>smaller ones. they even have the ferry schedules and prices if you
>would rather drive up and cruise back, or vice versa. dates, times,
>and places for festivals, celebrations, annual moose-dung fling,
>berry-picking contests, salmon grilling extravaganza, and other such
>silly nonsense.
>
>did i mention pictures? makes you sick that you're not there already.
>
>it is WELL worth the money, even if you never go to Alaska (i've been
>buying the damned things for like ten years, and haven't even made it
>as far north as the border).
>
>no,really, this is something you really should buy and read, if you
>are even thinking about going to Alaska.
>this is THE magazine/book (it's softbound, but it's like over 20mm
>thick!) for the coffee table or the porcelain reading throne. :)  it's
>not for men only, or women only, or kids only, it's for everybody.
>
>oh, and do take it with you on the trip. ;)
>
>happy traveling!
>unca joel
>(... one of these days ...)