WOT: Moving to Alaska, The logistical nightmare begins |
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WOT: Moving to Alaska, The logistical nightmare begins |
Rhodes71/914 |
Mar 29 2005, 04:43 PM
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Glacier Group: Members Posts: 1,374 Joined: 8-August 04 From: End of the Road, Alaska Member No.: 2,482 |
My house finally sold (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif) , set to close at the end of April so I have a month to get outta here.
This means figuring out how to get 3 cars (914 included) and a 3 bedroom house and 3 car garage full of stuff up there without completely breaking the bank. I would like to just fill a container with all the household stuff and the 914 and ship it up there but it seems that prices for that have gone up considerably in the last year. So it may be a uhaul of the Alaska Hwy. We where planning on driving it anyway just with our Rover and Toyota and not a moving truck. I've done the drive about 20 times so that's not a biggie but gas is going to be a killer. We will be moving to Homer on the Kenai penninsula, "the halibut fishing capital of the world". We are planning on opening a Coffee shop/bakery/roaster there. I used to live there and have missed it since the day I left. Open invitation to any club member visiting Alaska to come to Homer and visit. (IMG:http://www.ci.homer.ak.us/rickladd.jpg) (IMG:http://alaska-halibut-fishing-charters.com/images/recordcatch1a.jpg) |
Rhodes71/914 |
May 12 2005, 12:35 PM
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Glacier Group: Members Posts: 1,374 Joined: 8-August 04 From: End of the Road, Alaska Member No.: 2,482 |
I did get lucky in the fact that the Uhaul only had 1300 miles on it when I picked it up. Kid at the Uhaul place tried to give me a older one first the new one was sitting right next to it. Truck was pretty nice. I did have a stalling engine problem on hills after I got the water in th gas, but I was able to shift to N and get it restarted while still rolling. More of an annouyance that anything, I did not want to do a roadside transfer in the middle of the Yukon.
I think I got around 7.5 mpg, I'm not adding up my gas receipts, between that and the Rover I know it wasn't cheap! Here's a shot at a roadside stop in Northern BC. This is in the Muncho Lake area of the North Canadien Rockies, one of my favorite parts of the drive. Wish I had been driving the 914 instead of pulling it, there are some great twisties there. Attached image(s) |
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