Pictures from the Road Trip to Alaska are up! Enjoy! http://tjdeacon.com/trips/?album=1&gallery=101 -Tj

I believe I’m done tallying the totals for the Alaska Road Trip. I’ve gone over all my expenditures and categorized them, and unless anything I forgot to enter pops up on my credit card, my Road Trip App should be up to date. In terms of my estimates, I was hoping for $5,000 trip which…

Thursday night we left South Dakota and drove through the night. We decided to try and get home a day early to rest before work on Monday. Plus, with the midwest having a heatwave and my AC not working, it was miserable driving in the afternoon. So I drank two Starbucks Doubleshots that night which…

Thursday morning we left Cody, Wyoming at 9am. Our next destination was Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Several miles out from Cody we started hitting some new terrain. It got more mountainous, with different kind of shrubbery and rocks. To our surprise we were entering Big Horn National Forest. The forest was pretty cool. Very…

We woke up Wednesday in Bozeman, Montana, about an hour and a half away from Yellowstone National Park’s north entrance. After we got off I-90 and continued halfway down the route to the park I realized I forgot to get gas. Not only was I below 1/4 of a tank, I was actually on Empty….

Sunday we departed the ferry in Prince Rupert and made our way inland. We explored Prince Rupert for an hour or so, having lunch at a neat place on the water called Smiles. I had a Triple Decked House with Bacon and Tomato on the first, and Halibut and Shrimp on the second. After leaving…

Haines, Alaska At 9am on Friday our Ferry departed. Copilot and I found a nice outside observation deck with lounge chairs to spread out and nap on. The views were beautiful around here, still with white mountaintops and green hills to enjoy. The weather was also nice until we got farther out to sea. It…

After our flight-seeing tour, spending time in the gift shop, and talking with some people, we left for Anchorage. Our plan was to have lunch there and then drive overnight to Haines to catch the 9am ferry. When we reached Wasilla, home of the famous former Governor, we started to dip down south to Anchorage….

Thursday we left the hotel bright and early at 3:30am. And it was actually bright out, just as it was when we went to bed. We had a five hour drive (which I did in 3.5) down to Talkeetna to Fly 2 Aviation. This was a gorgeous stretch of road. It bordered and at times…

On the way To Fairbanks we stopped by the North Pole. It was a cute town whose streetlights were shaped and colored like candy canes and police cars had “POLICE” written in green with snow covering the top of the letters. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a picture of that. But we did stop by Santa’s…