Cost wrap up, Alaska trip

I didn’t keep a complete tab on all the costs of the trip to Alaska so I will list the items I did keep track of and generalize on the other items.  First and maybe the largest item was diesel.  I spent a little over $3900 on the round trip.  We went 9175 miles and I got something like 7.5 miles to the gallon which included all the running of the diesel generator during all the dry camping we did.  Camping cost varied but most of the time it was in the neighborhood of $30 a night.  Of course if you averaged the number of nights we used a campground with the number we dry camped it might be as low as $10 a night.  Food in Canada is very high compared to what we pay in the USA and if you eat out it is outlandish.  The price of food in the stores in Alaska is about 25% more than here but the cost of eating out is at least 50 to 75% more.  The cost of the motor home on the ferries was $2408.  My cost was less than Gary’s since I didn’t take my Jeep tow car.  Of course this is an optional way to go or return, driving would be cheaper even with the price of fuel.  Knowing what we know now I feel the trip could be cut from 3 1/2 months to 2 1/2 months.  We had several days that we had to stretch the time in order to get to Haines to get on the ferry the day we had scheduled back in February.  you do need some days for resting up, at least you do if you’re my age.  I did drag a little on the ferry with a 41 foot motor home but it didn’t tear anything up.  I didn’t even mention in the blog that I had a bird hit my windshield on the right side which caused a 4” crack.  Gary fixed it and if you don’t know it’s there you can’t see it.  Then after we got back in the USA I got a star chip on the left side which again Gary fixed.  You can’t beat having a windshield repair guy for a traveling companion.