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.