Anyone ever travel the Alaskan Highway?

[rockydem]

I'm going to plan a motorbike trip up the Alaskan Highway, through the Yukon, and all the way up to Barrow, Alaska.

Anyone ever done that, or anything like it, or know the areas?

[Nite Owl]

1. We did it twice.

Alcan both ways both times. A fantastic experience you will never forget. We did it by car though. It was a long time ago, in the 70's. As I recall you needed to bring extra gas and reinforce the car with a plate underneath to protect the gas tank. Need more than one spare tire. Ask me anything...

[Sporadicus]

2. Here's an Article

http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/akhwy.html

Seems to have been vastly improved since the mid-'70s, when I traveled by car as far as just across the border into the Yukon. I still have a 3-foot-long pipe wrench I found alongside the road as a souvenir.

[crimson333]

3. 5 times when I was a kid. Alaska to Alabama by car

[FarLeftRage]

4. I did

Back in June, 1979 and they were still paving it.

There were many spots where the road narrowed and a bit rough moreso over the unpaved areas.

You should have no problem today tho...

[jmowreader]

5. Neil Peart talks about it in "Ghost Rider"

Neil Peart, who plays drums in a Canadian musical ensemble, lost both his wife and daughter in the span of a few months. To recover, he did what all multimillionaire rock drummers who lose their entire families do: he rode his motorcycle through every state in the continental US, most of Canada and a hell of a lot of Central and South America. And then he wrote a book about it.

The book is Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road and if you are even thinking about riding a motorcycle on the Alaskan Highway, you must read this book.

Peart picked his path carefully; he wanted to go to places where they wouldn't know who he was and was successful at this.

The book has been criticized for some "anti-American attitudes" because of the way he describes the people who live in North Idaho. I thought he hit the nail on the head.