I have a fun article for you to read, it's from Motor Trend, link provided by Instapundit. The author took a 2025 Toyota Land Cruiser with roof rack tent on a roundtrip drive from the Los Angeles area to the end of the road at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. His wife joined him for roughly the last 60% of the drive. They tented much of the way with hotel rooms in a few places. It is a good read.
He drove really far each day and did the roundtrip in 18 days. He saw a lot of wildlife, fed more than a few large mosquitoes, and found the vehicle reliable and comfortable if something of a gas hog.
In my heyday some decades ago I'd have taken 6 weeks to 2 months and driven fewer miles each day. I'd also choose ideally to do it in a one ton pickup with a camper, no tenting for me.
When the other DrC and I drove the Alaskan Highway sometime in the early 1980s little was paved until you got to Alaska. the Dawson Highway wasn't open then and Fairbanks was as far north as we got. We did it in a small class C motorhome and it was an adventure for sure. To learn more about our RV adventures up north, search "Muncho Lake" on the website's Search feature.
