AlCan trip is on rails now (hopefully)

"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori) 08/13/2019 at 12:41 • Filed to: TQ3

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Our place in Anchorage because how could we not?

Which is as exciting as it is intimidating.

Basically where we’re at is:

All hotels (13) booked

All flights (2) booked

All cars (3) arranged to be shipped*

Route and schedule finalized

F erries (2) booked

Passports and paperwork in order

Satphone reserved

International cell service enabled

Holy shit this is happening.

*The Tulsa cars are getting picked up Friday. The Austin car is being driven because of aforementioned !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

facw > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/13/2019 at 12:46

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I’m excited to see what you guys picked!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/13/2019 at 12:48

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Awesome! Looking forward to this! :D

jminer > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/13/2019 at 13:28

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That looks like an amazing place to take a trip to!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/13/2019 at 14:03

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Woo! 

facw > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/13/2019 at 15:51

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I’m a bit worried about the Austin car though, cheap car without much time to prep makes sending it an extra 2000+ miles seem a little worrying.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > facw 08/13/2019 at 16:07

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Cheap cars are tough! It’ll make it! I have faith!

...do the exclamation points sell it? >_>

facw > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/13/2019 at 16:34

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It’s a tough sale when you don’t even know what it is...

DarkMinun > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/13/2019 at 17:47

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Let us know about the sat phone if you have the misfortune of needing to use it. I had the pleasure of breaking down 2 hours from the nearest town/cell service on the Alcan last summer, a quick hitchhike was enough to get me to a pay phone.

I’ve heard t hat sat phone coverage is spotty at best, though they have become more or less standard equipment on the winter roads around here because a chance of service is better than no chance at all.

Wit h the prices they run, I don’t t hink I’d shell out for one. Pretty much anyone will stop to help on t hat road and there’s relatively steady traffic.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > DarkMinun 08/13/2019 at 18:10

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Yeah we hope to never need it, but at $200 for the three weeks it seems like cheap insurance. We rented one for our last trip and used it twice (for non-emergencies) and it worked well. It did get stuck in a reboot loop at one point, which was annoying.

MM54 > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 08/13/2019 at 19:39

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This is going to be good