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You know what? Chicken butt.
Just got back from a roughly 10,000 mile road trip with my son who turned 17 on the road. Drove our truck camper to Alaska including using a ferry to see the inside passage from Prince Reuport, BC to Juneau then drove off for a few days then caught it up to Skagway then drove the interior of Alaska, down to the Kenai Penninsula including catching our limit of Sockeye. From there, on a whim we decide to add an extra 1,500 miles or so which took us to Seattle, the whole coast of Oregon, family in central and Southern California where we surfed then back home to Missouri.

What an epic trip. We stayed in a lot of free places like Wal Mart parking lots, we hit a moose broadside in the Yukon (amazingly avoiding major mechanical damage to the rig) my son was served beer as a 16 year old, by a 15 year old worker (again in the Yukon where apparently you can do whatever you can get away with) and we generally had an amazing trip.

We drove a 2002 F250 diesel truck tuned with a new chip, air intake and exhaust, added air bags and new shocks as an upgrade. We carried a 2006 Lance truck camper with built in propane generator, wet bath, microwave, AC, etc. I freaking love this camper.

I’m sure there are other epic trips out there I’d like to hear about.
 
I think what saved major damage from the moose was the front cargo rack. I had a front hitch installed so I could carry some army cargo cans to act as a ballast of sorts to the weight of the camper. Since it sat lower and extended out front a few feet it took the animals legs out. She rolled up the hood and did some damage but amazingly didn’t shatter the windshield to do any mechanical damage. We were very lucky. 93D13061-57D6-4BF8-997B-72DF1277A2FA.jpeg 54F6DBEA-622D-4406-AE80-CD15233B99E7.jpeg
 

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I think I can see the imprint from its knuckle.
Hahahaha. Man it was so damn scary. I can’t believe she didn’t do more damage. She put a small dent in the nose of the camper as she rolled off but didn’t damage side mirrors at all. Incredibly lucky.

Oh, I didn’t mention another huge stroke of luck. I had the dummy battery light flash north of Great Falls, MT where there are no signs of life. Kept flashing into Canada. We roll into Lethridge, AB a town of about 100k and the first sign of life in hours and my instruments all zero out. 30 seconds later the truck dies. I freaking coast into a Canadian Tire parking lot where they replace my alternator. The damn thing could have gone out the night before, in the rain, in the dark, with no cell coverage south of Great Falls. We were so damn lucky.
 
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