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Summary: Get the MilePost and Looking for Alaska, all you need
Review: To go to the exotic and wild and unusual world that is ALASKA you need two books, `MilePost' and `Looking for Alaska' by Peter Jenkins.In order to get the fullness of ALASKA you must know where to drive, how far it is to the next gas station, what B&B to stay at that has cinnamon buns as big as the `moon' BUT you should also have a sense of the soul of ALASKA. The MilePost offers the practical and Looking For Alaska, Peter Jenkins'newest book offers you a glimpse of the soul and spirit of this astounding place that you need to see and touch and hear. I cannot tell you how sad it is when one goes to a place so unusal as Alaska and misses the soul of the place and just stays in the practical. It would be like going to New Orleans or Washington, DC or Navajo country and just having the roads to drive and the places to eat but not any understanding of the WHY, the WHO, the heart. So take both of these fine books and you will have a richer journey for being well prepared.
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Summary: Don't do Alaska and Canada without it.
Review: We had a little problem using the book at the beginning of our 11,000 mile trip, takes a little getting used to the format but once we did it was as one review said: It shows every trashcan, rock, flower in Alaska. I especially liked driving by a burned out area of the forest and the details in the book that told about the fire how far it burned, when. We traveled in a motor home and it was a godsend in finding camping areas. Our bible Trailer Life Campground Guide in the lower US is good in the lower US but fell very short on information on campgrounds in Alaska and Yukon etc. The biggest problem we had with it was so many of the mileposts have disappeared or been misplaces along the roads so we had to do so much catchup once we pinpointed where we actually were. But it is very necessary.
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Summary: An absolute necessity for driving in Alaska
Review: We recently returned from 18 days in Alaska. We drove on the Parks Highway, the Glenn Highway, the Richardson Highway, the Steese Highway, the Elliot Highway, the Fishook-Willow Road, the Alaska Highway, the South Klondike Highway, and the entire road system around Juneau and Douglas Island. The Milepost covered all of the roads and we always knew where the next turnout was. The local advertising is indispensable (Eat at Fast Eddy's in Tok.)
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Summary: Does Not Live Up to Reputation
Review: While not TERRIBLE, this book is fairly useless. Certainly it is not worth its asking price. I was convinced to buy it by a friend who had used it to get around Alaska 25 years ago. But after a month of traveling around the state, I ended up feeling ripped off. In my travels around Alaska, I found numerous free vacation planners or free travel guides as good or better than this turkey. The book has numerous problems. In most cases, historical or cultural information is missing completely, or described in the most perfunctory way. And even when there's actually something of interest, thousands of disguised advertisements for paying businesses clutter the text, making it hard to find. The book is more or less a business directory, and its community descriptions seem taken straight from census data. 25 years ago, it MAY have a good resource (though I'm not even convinced of that.) But it seems to have become obsolete. If you really want the information it's peddling, wait till you get to Alaska to pick up a free guide, or hit the internet.
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