WOT: Moving to Alaska, The logistical nightmare begins |
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WOT: Moving to Alaska, The logistical nightmare begins |
Rhodes71/914 |
Mar 29 2005, 04:43 PM
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Glacier Group: Members Posts: 1,374 Joined: 8-August 04 From: End of the Road, Alaska Member No.: 2,482 |
My house finally sold (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif) , set to close at the end of April so I have a month to get outta here.
This means figuring out how to get 3 cars (914 included) and a 3 bedroom house and 3 car garage full of stuff up there without completely breaking the bank. I would like to just fill a container with all the household stuff and the 914 and ship it up there but it seems that prices for that have gone up considerably in the last year. So it may be a uhaul of the Alaska Hwy. We where planning on driving it anyway just with our Rover and Toyota and not a moving truck. I've done the drive about 20 times so that's not a biggie but gas is going to be a killer. We will be moving to Homer on the Kenai penninsula, "the halibut fishing capital of the world". We are planning on opening a Coffee shop/bakery/roaster there. I used to live there and have missed it since the day I left. Open invitation to any club member visiting Alaska to come to Homer and visit. (IMG:http://www.ci.homer.ak.us/rickladd.jpg) (IMG:http://alaska-halibut-fishing-charters.com/images/recordcatch1a.jpg) |
Rhodes71/914 |
Mar 30 2005, 01:41 AM
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Glacier Group: Members Posts: 1,374 Joined: 8-August 04 From: End of the Road, Alaska Member No.: 2,482 |
Hey guys thanks for all the well wishes. I am very excited to be going back, when I left all my friends said "you'll be back".
Ken - the other side of the bay for Homer is one of the coolest places in Alaska. Huge state park with private land mixed in, hiking trails, camping, lakes you can actually swim in. So your friend has one of the shellfish farms over there, a lot of work from what I here but Kachemack bay oysters and mussles are starting to make a name for themselves. I'll still be on the board so you should give a shout if you visit him.
I worked on a charter boat for a couple of summers, 410 shotgun was the fave back then for shooting anything over 100#.
Container is how I would like to go but it sounds like it could be a lot more than the uhaul. Still waiting for some quotes but one guy that I talked to today said that the ships are charging a lot more for the Seattle-Anchorage run than in the past. I asked for a ball park figure and he told me $6K-10K. $500 for a truck rental that leaves a lot of money on the table for fuel. Recent gas prices in the Yukon are .99 a ltr cnd, that translates to 3.04 us per gallon.
Yeah, lots of crap getting thinned from the pile on this move. |
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