FAI: Adventure Before Dementia Tour (ABDT) 2015

Seven days, six nights & 1,069 miles. Are you ready for an adventure that will take you from Fairbanks to Talkeetna, a tour of MATI (Alaska Transportation Museum), the Wagon Trail Days parade in Hope and visit with our Antique Auto Mushers of Alaska friends replete with a pancake feed breakfast, before heading down the Kenai Peninsula and an evening with the Kaknu Kruzers?

A highly scenic and relaxing Adventure Before Dementia Tour is planned for the VLNAAACF – checkout the 2015 ABDT Itinerary!

Thu – July 16: Drive 278 miles from Fairbanks to Talkeetna.
Fri – July 17: Drive 201 miles from Talkeetna to Hope (tour the AK Transportation Museum in-route). Tour the quaint gold rush community of Hope.
Sat – July 18: Hope Wagon Trail Days will include two parades with our cars, a 5K run (for those inclined & able), participate in community fundraising events, interface with our Anchorage counterparts of the AAMA, play card & board games, etc.
Sun – July 19: After a pancake feed breakfast in Hope we’ll drive 70 miles to Kenai. A BBQ dinner is likely that evening with the Kaknu (Russian for Kenai) Kruzers. We’ll also see our former members David & Katy Karpik who have relocated to Kenai.
Mon – July 20: Tour the Kenai community area (Kaknu Kruzer’s garages, Russian Orthodox Church, Museum, hopefully observe Beluga Whales at the mouth of the Kenai River & more.
Tue – July 21: Drive 200 miles from Kenai to Wasilla.
Wed – July 22: Cruise 320 miles to Fairbanks.

Interested? Please email Scott Grundy at sgrundy55ply@gmail.com for additional information and to reserve your housing that is very limited & is on a first come, first served. Weather permitting, some of us could decide at the last minute to leave a day earlier to Talkeetna for a flightseeing tour around Mt. McKinley (Denali). Or we could do such on our return to FBX.

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