Will Air Suspension strand me?

[KT2T]

I've been talking to my wife about your overland adventure and am excited to have an update to share with her today. Please stay safe and keep us updated as often as you can (preferably with pictures ).

[HummerMann]

FINALLY made it to Alaska today and had a some of the best muffins I've ever eaten in Chicken, AK. Came around a bend and almost tagged a moose this morning. They don't move much for vehicles I've found out. Had our best mpg leg ever on this 307 mile leg today that constantly descends from 5800 msl to 400 msl at 55 - 60 mph on pavement and hard packed dirt, 14.6 mpg, which is way above our 11.7 to 12.8mpg average. Hummers still create a lot of attention up here. Added my first quart of oil last night and hope to get it changed in Anchorage before we set out for Denali. You have to get used to this daylight 24/7. Even with the blackout curtains in the hotels, it seems like you should be up doing something at 3 am with the twilight. Tried to send a pic of Chicken but the Internet is VERY VERY slow here. This is one of the first places my cell phone has worked in 400 miles.

[HummerMann]

We LOVED Eagle, Alaska. 80 degrees here yesterday with thunderstorms. Nothing goes to waste here and everyone has a rain catcher and vat of rainwater in the shed behind the house. This is small town America at its best. I had two serious offers to buy the H2 here for much more than KBB value. When they told us at the diner it would take 24 hours to drive the 508 miles to Anchorage on highway 1, the Glenn Highway, I thought they were talking about in the winter time - they weren't. Lots of summer road construction and blasting. There's gravel roadway and hard packed dirt and not a lot of pavement on this section. The windshield took it's first big gravel chip yesterday. We have seen at least 50 bald eagle in the last two days.

[HummerMann]

We are enjoying Anchorage at the Captain Cook Hotel. A very nice hotel with great blackout curtains for that summer extended daylight up here. The H2 has run great without a single hiccup except for a chipped windshield. We are 6033 miles into our adventure and tomorrow I'm taking the H2 to a fast lube place for an oil change. The H2 is a VERY comfortable road trip vehicle and I hope to post some pictures of the H2 on A1 as we head to Homer, AK, 247 miles to the West. They say this stretch of A-1 is one of the most beautiful drives of any highway in the US. We could take the ferry, but we want to enjoy the drive instead.
Gas prices in Anchorage are some of the most expensive on this trip at $4.09 a gallon for regular. I haven't reset the lie-o-meter since we left NY and it says we're averaging 12.8 mpg - not bad. This reminds me a little of those old days, because Hummers still draw attention in Alaska. We've seen a lot of lifted H3s in Anchorage. I can't even tell you how many offers we've had to buy the H2 between the Yukon and here!

[Z06RB]

Thanks for the update and looking forward to the pictures.

[HummerMann]

Homer is GORGEOUS! We love it here. There are moose everywhere here, more than in the Yukon where we saw at least a dozen and got lots of road warnings! It's not like with the deer at dusk and dawn, the moose or out on the road all times of day here and in town too. We've literally seen 50 bald eagles in the last two days. Not a real great Internet connection - reminds me of the old phone modem days.
I wish I had Egan's gobi racks before we left!

[HummerMann]

We have FINALLY returned home, although without the H2, and had a WONDERFUL TIME. The Hummer ran perfectly for all 6900 miles up to Sitka. We took the H2 on the car ferry up to Sitka and really enjoyed the ferry trip. We had lots of rain in Sitka and then my wife came down with appendicitis which the doctors told me is very rare for someone of her older age. She had pains in her side for several days and then the fever set in. The care at the Sitka Community Hospital was excellent and she was back on her feet and ready to go again in four days.
While in Sitka one of the doctors made me an offer on the 2006 H2 SUT that I couldn't refuse. $30,000, or double the kbb private party price for a 168000 mile 2006 Hummer. I must say I take good care of my cars and it had new BF Goodrich tires on it when we left. I also had the front seats recovered last year. I didn't see any other H2s in Sitka while I was waiting for my wife to recover. We had lots of rain while we were in Sitka and when a cruise ship comes in, the town is flooded with people.
This was the trip of a lifetime and the people in the Yukon and in Sitka are the nicest people I have met anywhere. Having an H2 made it easy to get to some out of the way places like Chicken and Eagle, Alaska. Finding gas was never a problem. With the money we covered a lot of our expenses and the cost of the two tickets home from Sitka, plus I have enough left over to look for another H2. I'm in negotiations right now with an individual with a low mileage 2008 in Leesburg , Florida and hope to pull the trigger and fly down, look at it, and bring it home next week.