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Driving Day 2: Tok to Beaver Creek – 175.4km

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Tok RV park was a splendid place, with well kept lawns, an abundance of trees, and substantially less mosquitoes than we have become accustomed to! It also had Fast Eddy’s, a restaurant nearby which as you may recall from the last blog post, served delicious food. This may not seem like much if one was ...

Driving Day 1: Chena Hot Springs to Tok – 402.3km

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Day 5 dawned bright and (very) early as the team slept fitfully for the second night at Chena Hot Springs. Well, most of the team were sleeping, but the German contingent (Nik and Clemens) were up early to watch Germany thrash Argentina 4-0. They had a good time rubbing this into the rest of ...

Chena Hot Springs

Trip Day 4. A few days ago, Clemens contacted the local Electric Automobile Association and told them about our trip. Via the grapevine, a man called Bernie Karl heard about the project and invited us up to his resort about 60 miles north east of Fairbanks. He promised us free accommodation, food, the renowned revitalising properties ...

Anchorage to Fairbanks

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On Trip Day 3 we set off from our base on the outskirts of Anchorage to Fairbanks, over 420 miles away! The team was up late making sure that everything was sorted for the journey ahead, and then of course we had to be up early at 6am to set off for the first long ...

Anchorage, Picking up the RV

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Trip day 2 dawned bright and early, and despite very little sleep the night before, the team were buzzing with anticipation! There was a lot to do to prepare for the trip including picking up our motorhome rental, the car, all our equipment, and other last minute jobs. Before all this work could ...

Arriving in Anchorage

Trip Day 1. Today saw us complete our first full day of the trip, despite not actually driving the SRZero at all.  As part of our schedule and logistics planning, we had always allowed the first day of the trip to be getting ourselves organised, and we certainly needed it! First off, we went to the airport ...