They forgot to add three days sitting in Whitehorse with a bad clutch.:>)

Mark in AK  -  BTDT

----- Original Message -----
From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:21 pm
Subject: Re: vanagon Digest - 16 Jan 2006 to 17 Jan 2006 - Special issue (#2006-36)
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

> Just checked those figures with Mapquest, my usual online
> resource, and they
> drive a lot faster than your guys. They say that Seattle to
> Anchorage is
> 2359.43 miles and will take 43 hours and 36 minutes!! They are
> obviously NOT
> Vanagon drivers!
>
> On 1/17/06, Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > What? According to the www.usatourist.com mileage calculator it
> is less
> > than half the distance from Seattle to Anchorage than it is from
> Miami> to Anchorage. I had no idea it was that far north to AK,
> though. For me
> > to drive to Anchorage from where I live in the SF bay area would be
> > about 3157 miles! Makes my recent trip to Baja seem short, less than
> > 2000 miles round trip... Guess I will have to allow a lot of
> time when
> > I get around to making that trip!
> >
> > Miami, FL to Anchorage, AK
> > Miles: 5082
> > Kilometers: 8182
> > Driving Time: 120 hours
> >
> > Seattle, WA to Anchorage, AK
> > Miles: 2371
> > Kilometers: 3815
> > Driving Time: 60 hours
> >
> > Keith O.
> > 84 Westy "Brownie"
> > 90 Westy Syncro
> >
> > On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> >
> > > Date:    Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:20:03 -0500
> > > From:    John Reddick <SVYOLO@YAHOO.COM>
> > > Subject: Re: Anchorage Trip
> > >
> > > I drove from Seattle all the way to Prudoe Bay about 4 years
> ago in my
> > > Westy.  It was an awesome trip.  The only bad thing was the drive
> > > back. I
> > > spent 2 months getting there, but only 10 days getting  back.
> > > Anchorage to
> > > Seattle is farther than Anchorage to Miami if I remember
> right.  I saw
> > > a
> > > great bumper sticker on the way back.  It said "The Alcan, it
> is a
> > > great
> > > drive, one way?"  What you are doing is the best way and the
> way I
> > > would do
> > > it again.  Take the ferry up, and a great, long, camping trip
> on the
> > > way back.
> > >
> > > John
> > > 87 Westy SVX
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>