After spending many hours pouring over flight plans (mostly using AOPA's Flight Planner), I have revised our itinerary yet again. Cousin Chris wants to see Niagara Falls so we'll head for there to start with and hopefully talk our way into a fly over. I've flown over them before and even from the altitude of 3500ft they look pretty impressive. Our first night will then probably be in Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan which we'll reach by going through Canada - passing directly over Toronto and hopefully getting a good view of that fair city.
Next day we'll head out through Michigan's upper peninsula on the southern shore of Lake Superior. Then into Minnesota and North Dakota. From there we'll track up across the border in Canada and make it to Regina, Saskatchewan to clear Canadian Customs and for our second overnight.
Day 3 will see us heading across towards Edmonton, Alberta and then on up to Dawson Creek where we'll probably overnight.
Next day will take us from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse in the Yukon. We'll be mostly following the Alaska Highway up the valleys and avoiding the more mountainous and desolate direct route.
On the Fifth day after we leave home we'll hopefully arrive in Alaska at Northway where we'll clear US Customs. From there we'll go to either Fairbanks or Anchorage depending on weather and fires. (We here there are a lot of forest fires burning in Alaska at present).
Of course this entire plan is weather dependent. We won't fly near any thunderstorms and I'll be setting my personal minimums for IFR into airports I've never been before. Our wish is for good VFR weather so we can stay low and see a lot more than the inside of clouds. Next week it will be time to starting looking at the long range forecasts and seeing if that might materialize for us.
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