Ha this reminds me of a time when I was younger and me and my dad were driving north in Alberta Canada about 80% of the way up to go to one of my families ranches in Northern Alberta. We were gassing up at a gas station, when a nice American couple came over and asked us how much longer it would take them to get to Alaska, and we were like WTF... they had no idea how big Canadian provinces were and thought they were similar size to American nothern states, we pointed them towards the nearest hotel and told em they were at least 1 day full drive out still...
My cousin and her boyfriend went from Anchorage to Bozeman Montana in 3 I think, they drove 2 days straight (48 hours) before stopping for 1 night to sleep. And by they drove I mean he did because my cousin is a passenger princess
The Alaska Highway connects to British Columbia Highway 97, and then to Alberta Highway 2, which extends down to Montana. It is the most direct route to Alaska from the lower 48 by road.
If I remember correctly they thought it would be super quick just to head through northern BC or NW Territories and then the Yukon. Like a couple hours is what they were thinking... lol
Really? There were driving to Alaska and their GPS wouldn’t tell them how much further it was? Or where these people using a map and didn’t know how to reads a map? Because I’ve driven 44 hours across America before with a map and the map was always very honest about my progress. Did canada not have GPS at the time? Was this family using Rand McNally?was Canada not mapped at the time?
This was about 15-20 years ago, so no most people did not have GPS. Ironically me and my dad had a Garmin cause we used it in back country to track fence lines but the screen at the time were fairly small that it didn't really help. They did have a map of Canada but 1 it was in KMs and they didn't seem to have a good grasp of the conversion, and 2 they seemed to have thought the provinces were similar size to the US northern states, I think this was their major mistake.
I can actually see the conversion being an issue but even then the roads should have given them a pointer on how much further but yeah honestly I can see this happening.
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u/koss2134 15h ago
Ha this reminds me of a time when I was younger and me and my dad were driving north in Alberta Canada about 80% of the way up to go to one of my families ranches in Northern Alberta. We were gassing up at a gas station, when a nice American couple came over and asked us how much longer it would take them to get to Alaska, and we were like WTF... they had no idea how big Canadian provinces were and thought they were similar size to American nothern states, we pointed them towards the nearest hotel and told em they were at least 1 day full drive out still...