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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
Hate to say it, but I have done everything on my bucket list...
One possible thing that would be to do is a cruise from Seattle to Anchorage...
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Back in 2000, I flew to Seattle to meet my then gf where she had driven an old Isuzu trooper with 270K on the clock. We drove up to Bellingham, loaded the Trooper on the ferry up the inside passage. We got off at the end of the line and toured up thru Canada on the AlCan highway back over to AK on the Denali "highway" and then took a wandering tour back down to the Kenai peninsula, etc. Ultimately ended up back in Anchorage where we put a For Sale sign on the Izusu and sold it for $3K in 3 hours(hard to find a rust free old Trooper 4WD apparently) which essentially paid for our 4 week trip. We then flew back to Mississippi. It was a blast. Pretty damn cheap suprisingly. Way cheaper than a "real" cruise. I think our fair for the 2 of us including car and a berth for 3-4 days was less than 1500$.
One weird thing did happen. We were in the middle of nowhere stopped for lunch at an outpost when some bear hunters came in the restaurant. One guy asked who the Trooper from Mississippi belonged to? Turned out he waorked for a bank I represented at one time. Stranger than that, he had dated my gf's sister while he was in college. Small world.