danfromsyr
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Location: Syracuse, NY
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 Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 2:50 pm Post subject: Hitch hike in Alaska story with a VW bus. |
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The author of this page is not the VW owner but a traveler hitching a ride up the Dalton in a VW bus.
A great outside the fold viewpoint for such an trip.
Link for full story with awesome pics of a VW bus across Alaska.
http://www.slowburningdreams.com/is-this-some-gnarly-dream/
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Hundreds of miles, making impromptu friends and surviving 2 major VW incidents.
I’m not quite sure what the hell has just happened.
I’m cold and saturated lying on my side in the boggy tundra, a strange whirring noise filling the air, my elbow hurts and there is a dog on my head. It takes me a moment or two to comprehend…
Ah yes, of course, the dog is Frankie, the noise is a fridge, and I’m in Peroy Jones, the VW bus from Detroit owned by Pete Novak the American guy who is groaning and hanging from his seatbelt above me. Hmmmm… yes, all starting to make sense now.
It’ll take a bit to explain exactly how we found ourselves here, so if you don’t mind, I might just begin from a few days earlier. I’ll try to keep things brief.
5 days ago I decided I was going to hitch-hike 1600 kilometres from Fairbanks, Alaska to the Arctic Ocean and back – to the top of the world. Why hitchhike when I already have a bike? Well, essentially I didn’t want to shake my highly modified bike to bits on what I knew to be an infamous road, namely, the Dalton Highway. I’m just not good enough at fixing things yet to justify inevitable issues with my bike afterwards
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