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Many RVers travel with pets - both dogs AND cats! RVing can be a great way to travel without leaving your pets at home or at a boarding facility, which can often stress out your pet (and you). Before you take your pet out on the road, however, there are several things you need to consider to prepare yourself and your pet for a successful RV roadtrip. 
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The Boston Herald has dubbed this year "the year of the RV," claiming that in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the recreational-vehicle will serve as the ultimate social-distancing travel method of choice. While we have been ingrained in the RV Life since 2015, we realize many others are just starting to look at this mode of travel, or maybe have had plans to go full-time RV accelerated as jobs have become more remote-friendly. This is one of the reasons we've partnered with 4 other full-time RVers to launch RV Masterclass - an RV education platform to answer all your RV newbie questions you didn't even know to ask about buying an RV, boondocking, transitioning to full-time RV life, and more.  For our trip to Alaska, we did a good bit of planning regarding route, main attractions we want to see, and gear we needed. In this article we share what we looked into and what resources we found helpful in our Alaska trip planning. In this video and article we talk about:
What's it like driving a truck camper? How do they perform off-road? We chat about what it's like to drive a truck camper both on and off the road. Our "Go North" truck camper trip to Alaska was our very first experience with truck campers, and one of our first questions was, "How do we get this thing in and out of the truck?" We had 6 months to get used to loading and unloading this 2020 Lance 1172 Truck Camper on a 2019 Ford F350 Pickup. This video goes through step-by-step instructions to load a truck camper onto and off of a pickup truck. Mounting and dismounting a truck camper can be daunting the first time, but with practice the truck camper can be either put on or removed quickly and easily! Many people ask us how we liked the truck camper we used for our Go North Expedition and if it held up for our trip to Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. The best answer to this question is in the Go North Series itself as everything we did was enabled by it. There are pros and cons to every RV type, but for a rugged adventure like this we were very happy with how the rig performed. Truck campers have always been a fringe segment of the RV world, blending the line between overland and RVing comfort, which is exactly what we were looking for. Let's take a dive into the expedition vehicle that took us to the Arctic Ocean and back: Between the end of February until the beginning of April, we were in New Zealand with our The RVers TV show co-hosts John & Peter from The RV Geeks in Wilderness Motorhome Rentals. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. Just as things rapidly changed for millions of people around the world, so too did our travel plans. 
The end was near. Winter finally caught up to us as we turned into the homestretch of our journey, bringing not only the seasonal nostalgia of summertime, but reflections of a grand adventure approaching its conclusion. We seized each final endeavor, knowing that all too soon our time in the north would be up.
The season was changing, and marked the approach of our journey’s completion. Even though the bright, warm days of summer were gone, the onset of winter brought a unique experience – the contrast of orange leaves and white snow, the cold air and a hot campfire. Each season brings a unique perspective that cannot be seen any other time of year, and we intended to soak it all up in our last few weeks despite the cooler weather. It had been nearly 5 months on the road in our Lance 1172 truck camper when we exited mainland Alaska and crossed back into Canada in mid-September to start our long trek back south to the contiguous United States.
A visit to Alaska can be spectacular in any season, and each will bring its own wonder. Most RV travelers make their way here for the amazing summers and will depart as fall and cooler temperatures quickly set in. We were fortunate that we could stay long enough to see the full transition from summer to fall.
Our travels had looped us around Alaska's interior and brought us back once again to Fairbanks for a final set of northern Alaska adventures. We were back here in the fall because Fairbanks is one of the best places to see the Northern Lights, but you need dark skies which our first visit in mid-summer lacked. This time we were not alone, as a crew from Battle Born Batteries had joined us to see for themselves how the battery bank they'd helped us install for this expedition was performing, get a first-hand experience of what RVing in Alaska was like, and *hopefully* catch a glimpse of some of Alaska's natural wonders!
While Alaska is home to immense wilderness, it also has many people who call the land within its borders home. After spending time here, we could feel the draw of this beautiful state. Even though we were far from the rest of the country and the people & places that we were most familiar with, we started to understand why people would choose to live here. Our amazing glacier adventures in Whittier and Anchorage added to awe-inspiring appeal of The Last Frontier.
The premiere of The RVers TV Show on the Discovery channel is coming up in just a few days on November 17th on the Discovery Channel! ARE YOU READY??!?!? 
Time to hand in the keys to the Lance!
Here is our final LIVE updates from over on the Lance Camper Facebook page where we checked in from the night before and just moments before from saying our goodbyes and heading out of Lancaster with our fifth wheel. After our adventures in Valdez and McCarthy, we hopped on the Glenn Highway that would take us to the largest city in Alaska: Anchorage. As a large population center, the busyness was a shock to us after being so remote for so long. We resupplied here, taking advantage of cheap fuel and food before heading on down the Kenai Peninsula to its very southern tip in Homer. |
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