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Subject:Re: Trip to Alaska, summer 2009
From:Michael Sullivan
Date:Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:43:22 -0600

Keep us posted on the volcano, though :-)

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mark Tuovinen <mst@ak.net> wrote:

> 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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Michael in San Antonio
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