End of the Journey

After 133 days and over 12000 miles in the motorhome we finally were on our last leg of this journey.  Our final campground should have been an easy in and out but we decided to try an unfamiliar Mississippi state park. It sounded like a place we would like, with full hookups on a small lake in the woods.  Unfortunately the map to the campground was misleading and it took us quite a while and a bit of backtracking to find the park. It was a pretty and nicely wooded older park and the spaces were not level at all.  We were assigned one spot that was very small and very slanted but with a bit of work Breland was able to get us into the neighboring campsite. We faced a lake and were able to enjoy a beautiful sunset and a great sunrise.  The ride home was uneventful and Breland did his usual great job of backing down our long driveway.


Here's a couple of maps to show the states, provinces and territory we drove through on this very long trip.

The trip was wonderful and we have many amazing memories. Seeing the northern lights, experiencing the floods in Banff,  the majesty of Denali, all of the wildlife, the beauty of Lake Kluane, clamming on Cook Inlet, the ferry trips, each experience was enough to make the trip worthwhile.

There are some things I wish we had done differently.  A flood, fires, a snowstorm, and Bre's unexpected trip home slowed or detoured us but those were unavoidable and we made the best of each.  I would skip Homer on the next trip, spend many more days in Denali and not let something as insignificant as the broken steps interfere with our plans. Valdez deserved even more time than we spent there, I do wish we had not been so determined to spend the Fourth of July in the United States and taken a side trip to visit the town of Atlin, YT.  We still regret not making the trip along the Dalton Highway all of the way to Prudhoe Bay.   We  turned around just past the Arctic Circle because going the whole way would have meant leaving the motorhome behind  and getting another spare for the car but...next time!

And next time we will leave later in the year and stay for fall in Alaska.  I want to enter the road lottery so that we can drive the entire road in Denali in our car and see that beautiful place in its fall colors.  We worried about being snowed in somewhere too far north but next time we will chance it.