Ellen,

Feel free to pmail me and I will be glad to offer ideas on the trip.  We have lived in Alaska most of our lives and have made the trip you are planning in a Westy.  Our driveway in Anchorage is always open to wandering vans, that way the two that reside in it have company.:<)

Mark in AK

----- Original Message -----
From: Ellen <elleninoregon@HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:11 am
Subject: Trip to Alaska, summer 2009
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

> Never too soon to start gathering ideas for this!  After the five-
> week, 7000-mile cross-country trip last fall (which went fairly 
> well) I am anxious to take Lola up to the GREAT LAND on a four 
> week jaunt this summer.  Any input is welcome, as well as 
> potential traveling partners.  I feel traveling up to Alaska is 
> different than around the lower 48 in that there are fewer 
> resources should something go wrong.  I am open to traveling in a 
> group of Vanagons, as opposed to just myself.  Places that are on 
> my must see list are Anchorage, Denali, and Fairbanks.  Everything 
> else is negotiable.  I am located close to Portland, Oregon.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ellen
> Lola, '85 Vanagon ASI
> Coee, Traveling Cat
> 
> Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel; stride 
> down there.....and light the bloody thing yourself." ~Dara Henderson
> 
> 
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