Will Air Suspension strand me?

[HummerMann]

Got to play golf here in Banff yesterday in perfect weather. Yes, that shot sliced into the water If you like golf, you'd love Banff. I was told you can crop and resize your pics on your IPhone, but I'm having problems with that. We are heading out to Lake Louise tomorrow and then up to Whitehorse. So far the weather has been great.

[HummerMann]

We made it to Dawson City in the Yukon and the scenery has been incredible. This is the high season up here and tourists are so plentiful we had a hard time finding a hotel room. The rest of the Yukon has been just the opposite with not even a another vehicle for miles. We stayed at a mom and pop hotel 300 miles south of here two nights ago and the mosquitoes were as thick as the black flies in Maine in the summer. By far you will find some of the nicest and friendliest people you will ever meet in the Yukon. Everyone drives some kind of 4X4 SUV or pickup up here. Milly is a RCMP, originally from Whitiehorse, and we talked roads and four wheeling yesterday in Dawson and the best route to Eagle. Having a ball!

[KT2T]

I've been talking to my wife about your overland adventure and am excited to have an update to share with her today. Please stay safe and keep us updated as often as you can (preferably with pictures ).

[HummerMann]

FINALLY made it to Alaska today and had a some of the best muffins I've ever eaten in Chicken, AK. Came around a bend and almost tagged a moose this morning. They don't move much for vehicles I've found out. Had our best mpg leg ever on this 307 mile leg today that constantly descends from 5800 msl to 400 msl at 55 - 60 mph on pavement and hard packed dirt, 14.6 mpg, which is way above our 11.7 to 12.8mpg average. Hummers still create a lot of attention up here. Added my first quart of oil last night and hope to get it changed in Anchorage before we set out for Denali. You have to get used to this daylight 24/7. Even with the blackout curtains in the hotels, it seems like you should be up doing something at 3 am with the twilight. Tried to send a pic of Chicken but the Internet is VERY VERY slow here. This is one of the first places my cell phone has worked in 400 miles.

[HummerMann]

We LOVED Eagle, Alaska. 80 degrees here yesterday with thunderstorms. Nothing goes to waste here and everyone has a rain catcher and vat of rainwater in the shed behind the house. This is small town America at its best. I had two serious offers to buy the H2 here for much more than KBB value. When they told us at the diner it would take 24 hours to drive the 508 miles to Anchorage on highway 1, the Glenn Highway, I thought they were talking about in the winter time - they weren't. Lots of summer road construction and blasting. There's gravel roadway and hard packed dirt and not a lot of pavement on this section. The windshield took it's first big gravel chip yesterday. We have seen at least 50 bald eagle in the last two days.

[HummerMann]

We are enjoying Anchorage at the Captain Cook Hotel. A very nice hotel with great blackout curtains for that summer extended daylight up here. The H2 has run great without a single hiccup except for a chipped windshield. We are 6033 miles into our adventure and tomorrow I'm taking the H2 to a fast lube place for an oil change. The H2 is a VERY comfortable road trip vehicle and I hope to post some pictures of the H2 on A1 as we head to Homer, AK, 247 miles to the West. They say this stretch of A-1 is one of the most beautiful drives of any highway in the US. We could take the ferry, but we want to enjoy the drive instead.
Gas prices in Anchorage are some of the most expensive on this trip at $4.09 a gallon for regular. I haven't reset the lie-o-meter since we left NY and it says we're averaging 12.8 mpg - not bad. This reminds me a little of those old days, because Hummers still draw attention in Alaska. We've seen a lot of lifted H3s in Anchorage. I can't even tell you how many offers we've had to buy the H2 between the Yukon and here!

[Z06RB]

Thanks for the update and looking forward to the pictures.