To Prepare...

We planned our trip to Alaska in 2006, but due to school and insufficient funds, we were unable to make our trip. Now that school is out of the way, we want to make one last big trip on the road before we start to settle down with the company that will hire our ever-learning minds.

In December of 2006 we complied our thoughts to create our route we would take, the places we would visit, and the budget we would need to save up. In recent months we collaborated on Google Docs to compile lists on what to pack, where we want to go, who we will try to visit, and what we wanted to show on our website that we want to continuously updates during our journey.

www.OurDriveToAlaska.com was then born. The site is currently under development, and we hope to spawn tourism in both Rochester, Alaska, and to the places we visit along the way there and back.

You may ask "why drive to Alaska"...but we ask you "why not?" We love great road trips. Not just any normal trip however, Bryan and I are of the notion that a real trip does not just include the destination, but everything there is to see on the way there. So we decided not to fly, but to drive to the last great frontier.

We are planning our road trip to Alaska to set out from Pittsford early Sunday morning on June 10th. Our 11,000+ mile road trip will take us through central and western Canada to Alaska Highway 1 - our route to Alaska's vast wilderness and adventure. We have visits planned along the way, camping each night on the road, and taking in night life in each of the bigger cities we reach. When we reach Alaska we will be spending a few days in the largest city of Anchorage as well as a week on the Kenai Peninsula southwest of Anchorage where we will be fishing, hiking, as well as seeing the great Alaskan glaciers. From there, we head down the west coast to Northern California and then back towards Rochester. We plan to be back in Rochester the week of July 22nd, but subject to changes.

Visit our site and our blog regularly to view the sites we've seen, the people we've met, and vast Canadian country that many of you have never thought of visiting.

Hope you enjoy our journey as much as we will!

-Matthew Ray & Bryan Carey