This trip itinerary has more flexibility than you might imagine possible for a caravan.  After 50 days of touring Alaska, we take a summer break giving you several options.

Option 1.  Visit more of Alaska and make the return trip on your own.
Option 2.  Make the return trip with one of the many other caravans.
Option 3.  Continue with the "Birding & Nature" caravan after the leisurely summer break.

Option 1.  Details for returning on your own.

We'll finish the first 50 days in the Kenai Peninsula.  You've got complete freedom to decide where you want to go from here and when you want to return. We'll provide you with road logs for the return trip or you can chart your own route back.

Option 2.  Return with another caravan.

You'll have a variety of return caravans to choose from.  All of the return caravans include a boat excursion and sight seeing trip to Juneau, which you can participate in also, if you choose to do so, at a cost of approximately $155 per person.  The rest of the caravan sponsored activities will be at no additional cost to you.  We'll want to know ahead of time which return caravan you select, but we have some flexibility on this and probably can accommodate changes even after we started our caravan trip.

ALTERNATIVE RETURN CARAVANS

Resume date	Location	End date	End location
9-Jul	Kenai, AK	22-Jul	Prince George, BC
11-Jul	Palmer, AK	22-Jul	Prince George, BC
12-Jul	Tok, AK	22-Jul	Prince George, BC
21-Jul	Tok, AK	31-Jul	Prince George, BC
28-Jul	Tok, AK	7-Aug	Prince George, BC
4-Aug	Tok, AK	14-Aug	Prince George, BC

Option 3.  Continue with the Birding & Nature Caravan.

This is the option we think most of you will choose.  Here's the basic schedule.

ITINERARY (subject to change)  

Days		Location	Stay
1-50	May 16 to July 4	Birding & Nature Caravan	(50 nights)
		stopping in Kenai Peninsula
	July 5 to August 14	summer break	(42 nights)
		resuming in Tok
51-70	August 15 to September 3	Birding & Nature Caravan	(20 nights)
		ending in Hyder, AK

What do you do during the summer break?  That's up to you, but here is what others did on our 2006 Alaska caravan.  One couple met their children at the Anchorage airport and went sightseeing for a week with them, followed by going back to a few of their favorite sites after the kids left.  Another couple invited their grandson to join them in Alaska and spent several weeks together.  A third couple stored their RV and flew to California and Panama for business and another birding trip, before returning for their RV and the trip home.

The main point is that almost all of those that have traveled with us to Alaska previous years, have wanted to stay longer and see more or revisit favorites or just stay put at one campground for a few weeks soaking up the wonderful scenery.

If you are the type that wants someone else to design your summer break, we've got lots of ideas for you and we've also designed two special side trips for that time frame:

• ferry to Kodiak Island (3 nights)

• visit Valdez and boat trip in Prince William Sound (3 nights)

Then after we've taken our break, we will meet up again Tok and continue the Birding & Nature caravan. 

One of the special opportunities this delayed schedule will give us is to be able to see Alaska and the Yukon Territory at the time when we can see the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) and changing fall colors.  We also have an exciting seven day trip planned for the Dempster Highway in the Yukon, taking us to the Northwest Territories during fall migration.

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