Road trip; Florida to Alaska

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I did a monthlong trip from Portland to Anchorage and back a few years ago. Lots of great places to stop. I set up a website and uploaded pics from the road, you'll be able to find plenty of internet cafes along the way - definitely keep it up because you'll develop a huge following of people living vicariously through you!

Here's some suggestions, if you plan on camping (I can give you more details GPS coordinates and a full map if you PM me).

• Yukon Brewing in Whitehorse was a great place. Their Cranberry Wheat is surprisingly good. Get some of their red.
• If you can get to Hyder, AK (next to Stewart BC) head out to Fish Creek, get up really early and you can see lots of brown bears feeding on the fish. Keep going and the road heads up and ends at a glacier (can't remember the name right now), great open areas camping out there and you won't see a whole lot of people. Meziadin Lake at the turnoff to Hyder is gorgeous on a good day and has good camping if you don't want to drive that far out of your way.
• Get to Nebesna Gold Mine (Nebesna Alaska). It's on the highway between Tok and GlenAllen. Turn off, there are a couple stream crossings, then you get to the town of Nebesna (population 7). Where the road ends and says says 'Road Closed' just keep driving, your H2 will get a workout. When you get to the mine, and the guy comes up to you (gun in hand), call him Jack (that's his name). He's a little wierd, but if you are nice to him, he'll let you stay on the property and walk through the old mining equipment - very cool stuff! Tell him the guy in the blue suburban with the big red kayak from 2-1/2 years ago says hi.
• Drive the ?? miles north from Fairbanks and see the Arctic Circle (there's a campground off the haul road)
• Get really adventurous and drive the 800(?) miles out to Inuvik. Spend $5 on a gallon of gas!
• The Chevron in Cantwell, AK has wireless internet, keep your laptop on at all times you never know where in the middle of BFA you might find internet.
• Go to Seward (south of Anchorage) and eat at the Rose Cafe, they have great Halibut poppers - you can also eat good italian food at Apollos.
• Drive to Whittier (S of Anchorage), take the ferry over to Valdez, or better yet, come into AK, head to Valdez, and take the ferry to Whittier and come into Anchorage from the south.
• North of Whitehorse, you can sleep on the shores of Lake LaBerge.
• Stop at Chicken, Alaska, because it's a town called Chicken and they are wierd people.

Sounds like a great time! Enjoy the trip and set something up for all of us to follow you!