this tardiest explorer driving hard across the plain

[primroseburrows]

So, anyone want to take a road trip with andeincascade and me?

This is the road we'll be taking:



This is the route map:




A recently-tuned SUV is a plus, but not necessary. ;)

Comments

[andeincascade.livejournal.com]

There's our road, baybee!!! Eeeeeeeeee!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

So we should make with the srs plans, eh?

[tarimanveri.livejournal.com]

Are you really doing it? That's so awesome. I've wanted to do it for ages! Maybe one day I will also find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort sea...

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

We're in the pre-planning stage. Which means we must get to teh planning. But yeah, we definitely want to do it.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Oh, the fireweed in that photo is so pretty! I remember how lovely all the fireweed was on my 1993 Canada roadtrip.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Where did you go?

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Up the Alaska Hwy, from Edmonton to Haines Junction and then north to Fairbanks. The mountain that Fraser and Ray climb in my team angst story from a couple of years ago? I climbed it!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Woah, how cool is that? I would love to go to Alaska, too, but have no idea how much time we'll be able to take.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

*flappy hands of OMFG AWESOME*

I don't even have the WORDS.

AWESOMENESS ON PARADE

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

COME WEETH USSSS.....

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, I WISH! There's no way I could ever come with that kind of cash. But my heart will be traveling with you. I'll be making the journey alongside you in my dreams.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

There will be as little cash expended as possible. Sleeping in the van (I'm hoping for a van) and such.

[luzula]

You guys know I'm interested, yes? (The main thing that might stop me is that if I fly long-distance, I get major guilt over the environmental effects. /o\)

My main drawback as a traveling partner: I have no driving licence.

My advantages: I give good backrubs. Also, I will talk endlessly about botany (heh, or maybe that's a drawback).

Are you guys thinking next summer? And where would you start from? How long time do you estimate it would take?

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

We haven't talked extensively about it yet; I'm hoping to go at least into part of the autumn so I can maybe see the Northern Lights. Next year is a definite possibility. Not sure of where we'd start from exactly, but I want to do all of the Dempster. It'd be nice to start in the US, also, depending on time.

I want to hear all about the plants along the way, so it's all good (I think I may fall completely in love with purple saxifrage). I also heart backrubs, as my back and I don't always get along.

Maybe you could do some carbon offset kind of thing to lessen our guilt?

[jesse_the_k]

...and a road that straight, and that unpopulated, could be an excellent place to learn how to drive, if you wanted to.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

This is true! :D

[luzula]

Augh, had written reply, but then my browser crashed and I lost the tab and forgot to write a new one. Anyway.

Next year's job situation is somewhat unsure at the moment. If I get teaching in the fall, it'll be hard to get time off after the first of September. But there's also a chance that I'll have full-time research, in which case I can take my vacation whenever I want. Annnnd there's also a chance I'll be unemployed, in which case I will happily be out traveling. I'll keep you updated.

Also, there's some darkness at night in August, at least, so you'd have a chance at the northern lights then.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I'm still not sure when we're doing this. Must have serious meeting with Ande. Definitely doing it, though. :D

[suchthefangirl.livejournal.com]

I cannot tell you how much I would love to go with you! If you go in a few years, I'll be in Fairbanks, so I might be able to meet up with you. If you go before then, then....I'll think about it...

So. Very. Cool.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

We will definitely keep you posted!

[vsee.livejournal.com]

I so want you guys to do this and to take me with you in spirit.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

We will send many postcards! And the trip is some time off, but we're definitely going to do it if the sky doesn't fall.