Depends on how fast you want to drive. SWMBA made the trip up from SEA with #1 boy as co-driver. I think they stopped every night. August, so still some late light, but not much past 8pm. Took them five days one way.
She made another transit down AlCan with her mutt. A week with camping along the roadway in June, so left with around 20 hours of daylight, arriving to 18 hours. Heading south took a week. Driving back, she took five days to Prince Rupert, took the AK ferry to Skagway, then along the Klondike Hwy to Whitehorse and back onto AlCan, for another two days before getting back to ANC. The drive from ANC to FAI is around 800 miles round trip. From FAI to Deadhorse is another 400, oneway. Roundtrip in a day seems reasonable. Were I driving up from the lower 48, I would go with a well suspended 126 LWB, or a W140 for real lux accommodations. The SDL would handle to unpaved sections of the AlCan without giving you massive back trouble or rump rictus. Not sure how well the W124 would take the beating of pocked gravel road at 50mph for long long stretches. Clay inter urinas et faeces nascimur > On Nov 9, 2021, at 5:40 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > The other day I saw a post from some guy on fakebook who drove a 560SEL from > Anchorage to the arctic circle in back within 24 hours. That got me to > thinking it would be a great monumental road trip to drive to Anchorage and > back from here in some sort of diesel Mercedes. Perhaps my 210. Maybe the > GL but it being much more complicated it would be harder to try to repair it > on the road. Maybe get an older 124 or 126 diesel ready for it. My brother > drove down here in a uhaul once when he moved down here from there. Might > have to wait until I retire or until i can manage to get 3+ weeks off at a > time. Not sure how much time it would take to do such a trip. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
