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ez2engage2
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 Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: Can you drive to Alaska? |
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While back, I met a family from Argentina in a casino in Vegas.
They said they were in the middle of 8 months vacation and were driving from Buenos Aires to Alaska.
I guess it's possible? Can you drive to Juneau/Anchorage from Vegas? |
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davai!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: |
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happeningthang
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What is it with you and the ponies? |
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ThePoet
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| not from Korea. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:28 am Post subject: Re: Can you drive to Alaska? |
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| ez2engage2 wrote: |
While back, I met a family from Argentina in a casino in Vegas.
They said they were in the middle of 8 months vacation and were driving from Buenos Aires to Alaska.
I guess it's possible? Can you drive to Juneau/Anchorage from Vegas? |
You can drive to Anchorage, but not to Juneau.
Juneau is locked by ocean on one side and mountains on the other side. The only accessable way into Juneau is either by plane or sea. |
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ez2engage2
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Doesn't look like there's any road along the coast so it must be one hell of a drive to go around Yukon Territory to Anchorage. |
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davai!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| happeningthang wrote: |
What is it with you and the ponies? |
Seinfeld
re: Juneau. They're building a highway that links to the Can-Am Hwy to the east over the mtn. range. The folks in Juneau are pissed (angry) b/c they fear an onslaught of Winnebagos. Look for it soon! |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:38 am Post subject: |
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| davai! wrote: |
| re: Juneau. They're building a highway that links to the Can-Am Hwy to the east over the mtn. range. The folks in Juneau are pissed (angry) b/c they fear an onslaught of Winnebagos. Look for it soon! |
That would royally bite when that is built.
One of the most attractive features I've always thought about Juneau was that it wasn't connected to any highway system. |
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davai!
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:22 am Post subject: |
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The Alaskans don't seem to mind taking money from the federal government, but don't like the federal government telling them where they can't let people drill for oil. Ungrateful *beeps*. |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:54 am Post subject: Re: Can you drive to Alaska? |
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| ez2engage2 wrote: |
While back, I met a family from Argentina in a casino in Vegas.
They said they were in the middle of 8 months vacation and were driving from Buenos Aires to Alaska.
I guess it's possible? Can you drive to Juneau/Anchorage from Vegas? |
Anchorage, easily. Though, why you'd go there, I don't know... unless it's a place to fill up the gas tank on the way to the Kenai.
Driving straight through (assuming you had mutliple drivers & switched off), you could get to Fairbanks from Vegas in about 4 days.
BTW... Argentina to Alaska? That sounds like a cool road trip. |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| davai! wrote: |
re: Juneau. They're building a highway that links to the Can-Am Hwy to the east over the mtn. range. The folks in Juneau are pissed (angry) b/c they fear an onslaught of Winnebagos. Look for it soon! |
Actually, the road would go up the coast to Skagway, not over the mountains. Still a huge waste of money, since it'd be a 2-3 day drive from Fairbanks or Anchorage. It's much faster to take the ferry from Whittier, and that way you can avoid the 2 border crossings (not a big issue now, but could be more complicated if they go through with the new passport law).
It would be a pretty drive though. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:16 am Post subject: |
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| I watched a documentary ona bridge connecting Russia and Alaska. A lot is planned but it's not even close to even (or ever) becoming a reality. But if it keeps getting just a little warmer up there, you never know. They might be looking towards the future and putting in roadways now. |
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krats1976
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| I watched a documentary ona bridge connecting Russia and Alaska. A lot is planned but it's not even close to even (or ever) becoming a reality. |
Are you talking about that Disovery Extreme Engineering episode? I saw it too... and it's a very stupid idea. Not only would the construction of the bridge itself be astronomical in price, but there are no roads TO the danged Bering Strait to begin with!! They'd have to build a very, very, very long road connecting Fairbanks to Nome, through hundreds of miles of permafrost. Then, thanks to the permafrost, they'd have to rebuild those hundreds of miles of roads every few years or so. To say the cost is 'prohibitive' would be a HUGE understatement.
And, for what? Some tourists? Certainly not for freight traffic. It's much cheaper to send stuff by ship than by truck, even if a road already exists. Not even for rail traffic. I mean, it hasn't ever been considered cost effective to even build a railroad from the Lower 48, through Canada to Alaska. So, who'd want to build one to Russia?
The only practical use of such a bridge would be an oil pipeline, and that's assuming that Russia ever manages to get it's Siberian oil fields producing effetiently.
All that said... it was a cool episode. 
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| But if it keeps getting just a little warmer up there, you never know. They might be looking towards the future and putting in roadways now. |
If it gets much warmer, most of Alaska will be a swamp that'd put the Everglades to shame.  |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| krats1976 wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| I watched a documentary ona bridge connecting Russia and Alaska. A lot is planned but it's not even close to even (or ever) becoming a reality. But if it keeps getting just a little warmer up there, you never know. They might be looking towards the future and putting in roadways now. |
Are you talking about that Disovery Extreme Engineering episode? I saw it too... and it's a very stupid idea. Not only would the construction of the bridge itself be astronomical in price, but there are no roads TO the danged Bering Strait to begin with!! They'd have to build a very, very, very long road connecting Fairbanks to Nome, through hundreds of miles of permafrost. Then, thanks to the permafrost, they'd have to rebuild those hundreds of miles of roads every few years or so. To say the cost is 'prohibitive' would be a HUGE understatement.
And, for what? Some tourists? Certainly not for freight traffic. It's much cheaper to send stuff by ship than by truck, even if a road already exists. Not even for rail traffic. I mean, it hasn't ever been considered cost effective to even build a railroad from the Lower 48, through Canada to Alaska. So, who'd want to build one to Russia?
The only practical use of such a bridge would be an oil pipeline, and that's assuming that Russia ever manages to get it's Siberian oil fields producing effetiently.
All that said... it was a cool episode. |
Yep, that is what I am talking about. But you forget global warming, whether it's true or not doesn't matter, things are getting warmer up there. You will start to see some territorial problems and a good way to get around that is show you already have an infrastructure there. Probably not so much in our lives, but the north will probably become much more accessible and important  |
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