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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:08:17 PM EDT
In about 3 months I am going on a 5,200 miles road trip from NH to WA to AK. I will be traveling with a 3 year old and a 1 year old. What are some must dos/sees and or any other recommendations for such a trip. Here is a rough idea of the route we will take.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:09:37 PM EDT
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I honestly think I'd shoot myself in the head before I took that trip - especially with two little kids.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:12:03 PM EDT
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The Santa Claus house North Pole (Fairbanks) AK.
Show Boat II Fairbanks AK 
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:12:55 PM EDT
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I'd have to see some valium and bourbon.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:13:22 PM EDT
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I honestly think I'd shoot myself in the head before I took that trip - especially with two little kids. I've done 3600 with 5 kids. 
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:14:22 PM EDT
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I'm calling
only because it's 87 hours
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:16:24 PM EDT
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The Santa Claus house North Pole (Fairbanks) AK. http://978b042a207189668104-cad5d4d0360b9b29cab9706f90a20468.r40.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/santa-clause-edited.jpg Show Boat II Fairbanks AK http://www.martingrumet.com/alaska03feb10-04fairbanks500.jpg |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:18:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:21:03 PM EDT
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Getting PCSd to Fairbanks?
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:22:38 PM EDT
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Chicago Science Museum
TR national Park Yellowstone |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:23:14 PM EDT
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Getting PCSd to Fairbanks? |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:23:48 PM EDT
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I'd stop in Chicago and see the U-505.
( I checked: the average daytime temp in Chicago in June is between 75 and 81 degrees. If you hit the museum when it opens, and leave the car in a parking garage, the kids should be fine in the trunk for an hour or two.) |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:28:35 PM EDT
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I'd stop in Chicago and see the U-505. ( I checked: the average daytime temp in Chicago in June is between 75 and 81 degrees. If you hit the museum when it opens, and leave the car in a parking garage, the kids should be fine in the trunk for an hour or two.) |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:33:51 PM EDT
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You need to see a mental health pro. a 1 and a 3 year old? Are you insane?
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:35:37 PM EDT
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You need to see a mental health pro. a 1 and a 3 year old? Are you insane? |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:36:49 PM EDT
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If going to be in Alaska you have to tour Denali. Took a 8 hr bus tour through there last year. Was wondering what we were going to do on a bus for that long, wished it was longer.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:38:05 PM EDT
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If going to be in Alaska you have to tour Denali. Took a 8 hr bus tour through there last year. Was wondering what we were going to do on a bus for that long, wished it was longer. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:38:41 PM EDT
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Yellowstone, Glacier if you don't mind a detour northward. Denali in Alaska. Mount Rushmore.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:43:24 PM EDT
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Yes I am. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Getting PCSd to Fairbanks? |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:44:37 PM EDT
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Who'd you piss off? |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:44:41 PM EDT
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In Red Lodge, Montana, go south over the Beartooth Pass. Visit Yellowstone. Go back north to your route through Livingston, MT (beautiful town).
Carry on. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:46:20 PM EDT
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How much time do you have? my friend just did that trip for fun.
Niagara falls, Yellowstone/ old faithful, mt rushmore, glacier national is amazing but might not be open early summer, HOH was cool, Mt rainier/helana. Make sure you take a trip down to DC before you leave. If you havent been there are a lot of cool things to see. Never know when you will be on the east coast again, dont leave without one last hurrah. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 7:50:22 PM EDT
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How much time do you have? my friend just did that trip for fun. Niagara falls, Yellowstone/ old faithful, mt rushmore, glacier national is amazing but might not be open early summer, HOH was cool, Mt rainier/helana. Make sure you take a trip down to DC before you leave. If you havent been there are a lot of cool things to see. Never know when you will be on the east coast again, dont leave without one last hurrah. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:11:43 PM EDT
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In Red Lodge, Montana, go south over the Beartooth Pass. Visit Yellowstone. Go back north to your route through Livingston, MT (beautiful town). Carry on. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:19:24 PM EDT
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Spaceneedle in Seattle OP..also get pics at the license plate wall in Dawson creek...Canada..WATCH for animals especially thru Canada and Ak, bears, moose, sheep, goats...check at the creeks for salmon running..the time is right as well..
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:20:11 PM EDT
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Yeah yellowstone is a must. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:23:11 PM EDT
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Mt. Monadnock!
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:23:42 PM EDT
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Stop at Vortex Optics in Middleton Wisconsin.
When you get to N.D., keep going, and once you're near the western part of Montana, go drive into GNP. Missoula is cool. 93 north into Kalispell is a beautiful drive. Stop at Polson and have some Cherries brisket. Coeur d'Alene is nice from what I hear. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:24:56 PM EDT
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Little Bighorn National Battlefield won't be much of a detour, looks like.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:25:20 PM EDT
[#29]
101 through big sur
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:25:45 PM EDT
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Mt. Monadnock! |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:26:22 PM EDT
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I would plan your day so that you start at 0 Dark 30 and get a couple of hours driving before the kids wake up and want breakfast. Then take breaks where you let them out of their car seats to run around or in the case of the 1 year old flop around.
Rest stops and city parks will be your friend. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:28:00 PM EDT
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I'd do Toronto - Blue Water Bridge - Lake Huron shoreline - Mackinaw Island - Lake Michigan Shoreline of the U.P. - Wisconsin Dells - Badlands/Black Hills/Needles Hwy and Devils Tower - Beartooth pass - Yellowstone - Grand Tetons - Craters of the Moon and then up to Bellingham WA to catch a ferry to see the Inside Passage.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:30:50 PM EDT
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If you've got the time, take the drive up the dempster highway and go up into the arctic circle. Its a completely boring drive
, you get to see some neat shit occasionally though. Then you can tell people you've been inside the arctic circle  Its starts close to Dawson city, and it looks like you'll be close. With 2 young kids I don't know if I would do it, Mainly because of the road.
When I went up it years ago it was pretty much all dirt, and its a long drive from Dawson city. I stopped at a "gas station" in which the fuel was pumped from 55 gal drums. A rough looking ol'gal came out to crank the pump and I asked her If anyone ever not stops for fuel. She said, "If they do, they don't ever come back"
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:31:24 PM EDT
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I'd do Toronto - Blue Water Bridge - Lake Huron shoreline - Mackinaw Island - Lake Michigan Shoreline of the U.P. - Wisconsin Dells - Badlands/Black Hills/Needles Hwy and Devils Tower - Beartooth pass - Yellowstone - Grand Tetons - Craters of the Moon and then up through Vancouver and the Inside Passage. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:31:49 PM EDT
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I hope you like corn
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:32:20 PM EDT
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If you've got the time, take the drive up the dempster highway and go up into the arctic circle. Its a completely boring drive , you get to see some neat shit occasionally though. Then you can tell people you've been inside the arctic circle Its starts close to Dawson city, and it looks like you'll be close. With 2 young kids I don't know if I would do it, Mainly because of the road.
When I went up it years ago it was pretty much all dirt, and its a long drive from Dawson city. I stopped at a "gas station" in which the fuel was pumped from 55 gal drums. A rough looking ol'gal came out to crank the pump and I asked her If anyone ever not stops for fuel. She said, "If they do, they don't ever come back" |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:33:01 PM EDT
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If you're stopping at Yellowstone, make sure to hit Grand Teton as well. You'll be sad you didn't.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:33:03 PM EDT
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I honestly think I'd shoot myself in the head before I took that trip - especially with two little kids. 5000+ miles? Hire movers and catch a flight on one of those new-fangled jet airplanes. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:39:12 PM EDT
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Bismarck. ND has a great museum. The North Dakota Heritage Center
Where I94 makes that little bump in eastern, MT is a little town called Glendive. Nice park there called Makoshika State Park. Badlands like environment and you can see the K-T boundary there. Yellowstone, NP. speaks for itself. Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, MT. Glacier, NP. Impossible to take a bad picture there. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:39:19 PM EDT
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I'd do Toronto - Blue Water Bridge - Lake Huron shoreline - Mackinaw Island - Lake Michigan Shoreline of the U.P. - Wisconsin Dells - Badlands/Black Hills/Needles Hwy and Devils Tower - Beartooth pass - Yellowstone - Grand Tetons - Craters of the Moon and then up to Bellingham WA to catch a ferry to see the Inside Passage. It's a touristy trap water park. Their a dime a dozen. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:45:06 PM EDT
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If you're stopping at Yellowstone, make sure to hit Grand Teton as well. You'll be sad you didn't. Grand Teton Yellowstone Devils Tower Badlands Mt Rushmore Crater Lake |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 8:52:36 PM EDT
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An airplane ticket. Day 1 wont be bad, but those kids won't want to be in the car for days 3-100.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 9:00:07 PM EDT
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You could take Highway 2 through Washington and stop in Leavenworth.
It's more scenic, but that far into the trip, you might want to stick with I-90 just to make it as quick as possible. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 9:00:53 PM EDT
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In Red Lodge, Montana, go south over the Beartooth Pass. Visit Yellowstone. Go back north to your route through Livingston, MT (beautiful town). Carry on. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 9:02:09 PM EDT
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Go south from the Badlands and take an afternoon in Custer state park. Drive the wildlife loop and see the buffaloes. Your welcome.
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Posted: 3/25/2017 9:03:05 PM EDT
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Wow that is really cool and will be a must see, minus the leaving the kids in the car part. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'd stop in Chicago and see the U-505. ( I checked: the average daytime temp in Chicago in June is between 75 and 81 degrees. If you hit the museum when it opens, and leave the car in a parking garage, the kids should be fine in the trunk for an hour or two.) ETA: Make sure you disable that interior trunk latch release. The one year old would be OK, but the three year old might get away. My son would have gotten out of the Federal supermax, no problem, when he was three. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 9:04:47 PM EDT
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A 10,400 mile trip with a 3 year old and a 1 year old?
Oh lawd, no thx. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 9:07:34 PM EDT
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A 10,400 mile trip with a 3 year old and a 1 year old? Oh lawd, no thx. |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 9:08:05 PM EDT
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I'm calling
only because it's 87 hours |
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Posted: 3/25/2017 9:13:18 PM EDT
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This. Grand Teton Yellowstone Devils Tower Badlands Mt Rushmore Crater Lake Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If you're stopping at Yellowstone, make sure to hit Grand Teton as well. You'll be sad you didn't. Grand Teton Yellowstone Devils Tower Badlands Mt Rushmore Crater Lake with 30 - 40 days to do it, you'll have a lot of fun. Get a couple of tour books for the trip thru Canada. It's pretty rugged, and easy to fuck up. 'Guide to the Alaska Highway,' for one. If you are taking any guns, check the regs carefully, as Canukistan will love you non-tenderly if you do it wrong. |
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