Loved the report. I drove to Alaska from South GA back in 1982 when the Alcan was pretty much all gravel. I was in my very early 20s and did not have much cash, nor was there many sources to get ideas from(no internet and very little reading material available in So GA. on the subject) . I spent a month or so driving around and camping in Alaska with nothing but a Rand Road Atlas for guidance...unfortunately I have lost all my photos. Ever since then I have dreamed of making the trip again, and doing it right this time, having money, etc so I did not have to live off of canned turnips and whatever fish we caught. I love to fly fish and I am surprised I never read about anyone fishing on these Alaska trip reports, well, I have ordered a brand new 2018 JKUR and I am going to fix it up with an Ursa Minor J30 and redo the trip in the summer of 2019. I plan on doing more fishing and less driving than your trip but I do want to hit the Dalton Hwy. I also plan on spending more time on off the highway trails that are up there (I am trying to figure out all these overland navigation systems available now...I plan to probably carry a few of them...better safe than sorry). On an interesting aside note, on my previous trip, it was me an my 19 year old cousin, on the way back, when we hit the Anchorage city limits before Ft. Richardson, there was a guy standing there hitch hiking with a sign that said Georgia bound. We picked him up and gave him a ride to Stone Mountain Georgia just north of Atlanta GA. He helped with the driving and we were able to make it from Anchorage to Georgia in just 5 days, we only stopped one time to sleep, it was at Glacier NP. We also picked up a couple of college students hitch hiking on the Glen Hwy a day or two after we arrived in Alaska, they were rolling three flats along the road....Ironically, they were from Tifton GA which is only 40 miles from where I live. Once again, thanks for the report and the inspiration.
