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“If you’re not moving, you’re standing  still.”

 

Steve Trafton

Inside Passage and ALF Arrival

From the Inside Passage and ports of Ketchikan and Juneau, we have received word that blue skies and great weather accompanied the Alaska ferry on its winding way north. (At least the Trafton Crew has escaped the smoky skies of the northwest.)

 

The ferry has now docked at Whittier and both ALFs vehicles (American LaFrance) have disembarked. Click on the GPS live links below to follow the touring progress of both ALFs (displaying  numbers and 1 and 4) through Alaska:

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ALF1 (Click Here)

Alf4 (Click Here)

 

Here are a few photos from the ferry ride through the Inland Passage showing the harbors at Ketchikan and Juneau. Then pictures showing a personal tour of the ferry’s diesel engines, to the 56 mile drive up to Anchorage from the port at Whittier, and finally parking to wait for other team members arrival by air on Tuesday, August 28th.

 

Off To California For Road Testing

 

Watch these short video clips as Steve Trafton describes the vehicle that he is road testing before the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge Race in the summer of 2016.

 

Other questions are answered in audio clips below.

 

 

 

What do you expect to learn from this road test?

 

Why do you have two separate vehicles?

 

What’s the progress on the second one?

 

 

 

 

You mentioned both your brother Byron and your wife Katherine being with you for road testing.

 

Were there problems that you did not anticipate?

 

 

Are there major parts that you have fabricated yourself?

 

Give me the general specifications for the vehicles.

 

 

What has happened in this road test that you didn’t expect ?

 

 

On the next blog, more questions will be answered about why the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge was chosen.