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1st Sgt. Gifford and Mike (New Zealand) made it home yesterday, Washington State. the CCKW ran fine for the final leg. We had them over for dinner tonight and wished Mike well. He is off to New Zealand tomorrow. He was very complimentary of the whole adventure. Hope the rest of you make the...

Got a call from 1st Sgt. Gifford today and they are either close to the apex of the trip or started on the downward leg. I think he said tomorrow there was going to be a celebration at the end of the road that was built back in 1942. things are going well for most, but it appears that one jeep...

Got a report from the 1st Sgt. tonight. The 43 CCKW is performing well. They are in Dawson City. Approx 65 vehicles made it for this adventure. He only had one problem so far and that was falling asleep and running off the road. Fortunately he went into the cleared right of way with no...

Got a report from 1SG Gifford this afternoon and they made Dawson creek. He did run out of fuel about 5 miles outside of town, but had extra on board. He found out that his 43 CCKW pulling a Ben Hur trailer will go 236 miles on a tank of fuel. Last night they had some rain and his quarters...

Thank you for sharing. Keep the pictures coming. The Admiral's car was at Arlington a few weeks ago.

If you saw a CCKW and a couple Chev 1 1/2 tons, that would have been Bill, Steve, and Neil. the timing was about right.

I haven't heard anything of a need for road assistance, so they must be in Canada by now. Probably locked up by the RCMP. :beer: We discussed the pros and cons of this mission and we finally decided if you weren't doing it in a WW2 rig, you were along for the ride. Besides you don't see as...

Here are a couple of photos from today. 1st Sgt Gifford and Mike Edridge (New Zealand). They were doing some final packing. You will note in one picture, the 1st Sgt. giving directions to the troops. Mike got a kick out of the size of the CCKW when the M54 pulled up. They thought they were...

I met Mike from New Zealand at 1st Sgt. Giffords, yesterday. He arrived on Tuesday. They have the CCKW mostly loaded and are planning on leaving Olympia, WA at 0700 Sunday morning.

What a great looking truck and setup. Bon journey.

Here are a few pics of 1st Sgt. Gifford's CCKW that will be going along on this mission. He built a dog house for the truck and we went and loaded it last Sunday. It loaded well and should give some comfy quarters for the trip. Bon journey to all of you.