It might seem terribly keen to be starting a blog a week before we actually take off, but just to make sure all is well with the technology, here is a bit of an introduction to our Alaska, Canada and USA Road Trip, 2012.
This is a first for us. Yep a legitimate first. As bargain
basement travellers we have always travelled in the ‘off season’, at best
in ‘shoulder’. For the most part, the northern hemisphere for us has been a
place of leafless trees, frost and the odd bit of snow. Alaska’s climate
however simply doesn’t allow for travel at any time other than summer. So it is
with some dread that we prepare to wrestle with the tourist hordes heading into
the peak Alaskan tourist season.
Pre-booking accommodation, park visits and day tours months,
even days ahead is just not us. We much prefer to just ‘bounce along’ enjoying
the freedom of being able to stay a while if a place catches our fancy. The
popularity of Alaska has forced us to pre-book for at least the that leg of our
trip. So for the first couple of weeks we have hotels, lodges and RV Park
Cabins booked throughout Alaska. From then on though we are free again as we
head south through the Canadian Rockies, east out on to the Canadian prairies, then
turning south to cross the US border somewhere just west of North Dakota and striking out south west towards Sacramento
before finally tracking north through Oregon and Washington back to our
starting point of Seattle.
Doesn’t seem too far if you say it quickly!
