I was interested in other people's expenses before we made the trip last summer. Here is my documentation for the trip.
We left Florida on June 11 and arrived back on October 18.
The 35 ft. Dolphin gas motorhome registered 15,908 miles. The motorhome got 7.36 mpg. I towed a Nissan Frontier 4X4 crew cab. We were maxed out on weight. I failed to record the total miles on the Nissan.
fuel motorhome 7460
fuel truck 458
camping fees 1850
fees and admissions 1988
other vehicle expenses 348 oil changes, propane
laundry 188
eating out 676
miscellaneous 1645
total 14613
Miscellaneous covered a lot of things including post cards, postage, tips, tolls, personal souvenirs, parking fees, ferry from Skagway to Haines, several books, several truck and motorhome washes which should have been posted to other vehicle expenses. In addition to these expenses we purchased $958 in gifts for family.
Our route was Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. A total of 130 days.
$112.40 per day
$0.92 per mile of motorhome travel
We did not count groceries as an expense as that expense would have been there anyway. We left home well stocked and purchased $1535 on the trip. We are vegetarian and did not eat out as much as some couples might. We dry camped for about 37 nights. This included rest areas, Wal-Marts, Fred Meyer, friends, relatives, side of the road in Alaska, a church parking lot in Anchorage, and a Casino in California.
We still need to finish our blog. We did part of the Oregon Coast; Crater Lake; Sedona, AZ, and the Balloon Festival at Albuquerque. The blog is located at: http://palsgrove.blogspot.com/
"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." John Wayne
My sister and I left the Seattle area on May 23rd 07 and returned home on August 22nd. We put 6,200 miles on the motorhome and 2,500 miles on the Jeep Cherokee. We spent about $8,000 for the trip plus $19,000 for a new engine for the motorhome at Cummins Northwest Diesel in Anchorage.
We drove up the Cassiar and down the Alcan. We went to Stewart, Hyder, Whitehorse, Keno, Dawson City, Chicken, Eagle, Tok, Fairbanks, Artic Circle, Anchorage, Homer, Whittier, Valdez, Kennicott, and a million other places.
I would like to go back in 2 years and try to see the ca-zillion other places in the Yukon and Alaska that I did not have the time to see.
Everywhere we went we met the nicest people. Did I say I wanted to go back?
George Steele
1991 36' Monaco Crown Royal
1991 Jeep Cherokee on the trailer
We went this year and your cost are in line. But it was a priceless trip. The people we meet along the way were nice. We are glad we went,it`s well worth it.
Ken/Ellen(RET)
2000 F250 Superduty
7.3psd/Banksbrake/Smartlock/Trans command/3.73gear/Edge EZ module
2002/29ft-Terry 5er:
Nike,Thanks planning on leaving NJ middle of May 08 to oklahoma and then wedding in Kansas city Missouri on Memorial Day then on up to Fairbanks. How where the roads up and back, once you hit alaska. We have no time frame just cruising and fishing. Thanks John
Tropyek
The roads were basically ok. Shortly after leaving Dawson Creek we hit a stretch of repairs. They seal with asphalt and then dump gravel on it and let the traffic beat it in. I got a cracked windshield on my truck there. The next repair area was up near Destruction Bay. After that it was just dealing with the frost heaves. Driving a car over the frost heaves is not bad but a motorhome with a long wheel base gives you a thrill if you don't slow down. The front wheels are coming out of it before the back wheels hit it and then the toad hits it and gives you another jerk. If you slow to about 30 mph they are not too bad. I had a couple of chips in the motorhome windshield by the time I made it to Tok. There is a good windshield repair man there at All Alaska Gifts. Sourdough RV Park is a fun place to stay at Tok. They had an evening program that was a lot of fun and their rate was reasonable. You don't need gravel to get a busted windshield. We were on the Richardson Highway a few miles south of Delta Junction. It was a well paved highway. A car passed me going the other way and threw up a rock that made a chip about the size of a baseball. It was too big to repair. One thing about Florida insurance is there is a state insurance law that requires the insurance companies to replace them with no deductible. We returned by the Cassiar Highway and it has several miles of gravel. If you go to Dawson City you will have to do the Top Of The World Highway over to Chicken. The Alaska portion is gravel.
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