Wow! where have we been since over 19 months ago!...? Yes we made mention of wanting to do the Alaska trip and by golly we did do it. May through September 2016 over 12,000 miles and $30,000 later. It bit us & bit us real good. We purchased a piece of ground in AK on the way out as an insurance policy that we will return... that was about half of the whole trip expense. We experienced a whole lot of mechanical woes but never gave up & continued to push on. During trip - replaced (not all at once) air compressor drive, cylinder head, blower, power steering shaft, cross over tubes, generator quit charging, brake drum, three oil changes (making oil). Since returning home from the trip we did an in-frame engine overhaul, upgraded from original inoperable generator to a 200 amp alternator (driven by the original generator armature shaft), completely rebuilt clutch assembly & attended two rallies, & recently lost a fan but no radiator damage! We're coming out of retirement at the request of a company that worked me for many years to do a project or two so we can recoup some of that trip expenditure because we want to do it again & again... We don't fret about the mechanical woes during the trip because we used this bus full time since 1979 to work construction projects all over the continent & most of all that time never even set the rack on the old girl. We knew she was a tired old bus when we set out for Alaska but knew she had at least one good trip left in her & by golly did it & took us back home. We were doing 63 mph on US freeways with two nearly dead cylinders... These old beasts are built like tanks to last. 26 years of commercial service then 40 more years of conversion status & still going strong (er) than the day we purchased it in April of 79. The engineers wont fade away until the last one goes to he scrapper which wont be in this century. :-)