Travel route and accomodations

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1. Anchorage (June 6 - 8)

("Downtown" Anchorage)

Biggest city in Alaska, but not the capital. We will be arriving here, in the evening of the 6th of June. Staying at the hostel Arctic Adventure. Will spend two nights here, before we pick up our faaaancy RV and leave for the wild... or, well, wilder... uhmm... Alaska...

2. Talkeetna (June 8 - 9)

(Mt McKinley, as seen from Wonder Lake)

On our way from Anchorage, going to Denali National Park, we stop in Talkeetna for one night, and an early flightseeing of Mt McKinley (or Mt Denali), including a glacier landing at the foot of the mountain.

3. Denali National Park (June 9 - 13)

(Iced in toilet at Teklanika campground)

After the flightseeing of Mt McKinley, we will head closer to the mountain, and the national park bearing its name. Staying in the park for four nights. We were originally meant to spend three nights at Teklanika Campground, which is as far in as you can go with an RV. However, due to extraordinary circumstances (such as the coldest winter in Alaska in 50 years!), the campground has been covered with Aufeis... which is basically 2 meters of solid ice (see image above).

4. Nenana (June 13)


After the stay at Denali, we head to Nenanna for river rafting.

5 - 6. Denali Highway and... the rest (June 13 - 19)
From here on, where we stop, and what we see is not planned in detail. We know that we will drive the Denali highway, and probably stop for one night on that highway. We will also travel Glenn Highway, on our way back to Anchorage. We might go Valdez, Copper Centre, Matanuska Glacier.

Unfortunately, we will NOT be going to Circle, Eagle or Chicken. North Pole is also, unfortunately, not possible to visit this time around.

1. Anchorage (June 19 - 20)
Back in Anchorage (staying at Arctic Adventure) to do some washing, leave the RV, and pick up a smaller car that will bring us to...

7-8. Seward and Homer (Kenai peninsula, June 20 - 25)
Nothing really planned, except that we are going on a glacier hike of the Exit Glacier in Seward. We will also probably do some sort of boat trip from Seward. Nothing planned for Homer. Hiking, mountain biking... eating fish... looking at the Volcano Mt Augustine.

Will be staying at Moby Dick Hostel (Seward) and Homer Hostel (uhmm... naturally its in Homer... )

1. Anchorage (June 26th)
Heading straight for the Anhorage airport from Homer... plane is leaving at 1 in the morning...

Off the map (June 26th - July 1st):
The plane from anchorage will take us to Las Vegas, via Salt Lake City. In Las Vegas we will stay at this hotel:

(The Luxor Hotel)

We will also travel to Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon, in a rental car, before we spend two more nights in Las Vegas and head home. The night before we head home, we will watch the magic show of Penn & Teller at the Rio.

In Grand Canyon, we will spend one night in Grand Canyon Village at the hotel called Grand Canyon Village, which is in Grand Canyon Village... which is the village (people!?) located near Grand Canyon... you see... hence the name...

Oh, in Vegas Joakim will probably gamble for (that is lose) all the money we have left at this point. And Sophie will go bonkers at the slot machines.

We will try to keep this place updated as often as possible, but Alaska is a desolate place so internet hook - ups might be, in fact probably are, very infrequent.

We are going into the wild...

... and we are also going to a different sort of wild...

VEGAS BABY!

So, to celebrate... we give you this:

Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire
Got a whole lot of money thats ready to burn,
So get those stakes up higher
Theres a thousand pretty women waitin out there
And theyre all livin devil may care
And Im just the devil with love to spare
Viva las vegas, viva las vegas

How I wish that there were more
Than the twenty-four hours in the day
cause even if there were forty more
I wouldnt sleep a minute away
Oh, theres black jack and poker and the roulette wheel
A fortune won and lost on evry deal
All you needs a strong heart and a nerve of steel
Viva las vegas, viva las vegas

Viva las vegas with you neon flashin
And your one armbandits crashin
All those hopes down the drain
Viva las vegas turnin day into nighttime
Turnin night into daytime
If you see it once
Youll never be the same again

Im gonna keep on the run
Im gonna have me some fun
If it costs me my very last dime
If I wind up broke up well
Ill always remember that I had a swingin time
Im gonna give it evrything Ive got
Lady luck please let the dice stay hot
Let me shout a seven with evry shot
Viva las vegas, viva las vegas,
Viva, viva las vegas