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Post Trip Items: Alaska Or Rust!! 2107 …. The Book

April 8, 2018 • CATEGORIES: Alaska Or Rust Trip, Books, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE II: Merlin has created an order page for the book. Payment by check or credit card (no PayPal), check preferred. Directions are all on the order page. After April 20th all books will be direct from publisher and more expensive.

https://hansonmechanical.wordpress.com/2018/04/05/ordering-the-alaska-or-rust-book/

We may have a handful of books for sale at the Midwest Willys Reunion, but probably not too many.

UPDATE: I confirmed with Merlin that the first run of hardcover books will cost $40 and that will include shipping in the continental US. The book is 144 pages with over 300 color photos.  After that, the book will be available through Blurb.com at a cost of $42 + shipping (I suspect they print and mail them to order).  When Merlin is ready, he will create a book order page on his website. He will only be accepting checks or money orders. I will let you know when he’s ready.

Printing number one of the book will be hardcover edition.  I really like the hardcover so I will probably only release a paperback down the road, or maybe just print some and sell them at shows.  As soon as I have the postage details together I will start accepting orders for books and I will setup a blog post with instructions on how to pre-order.

Merlin Hanson has authored a photo book on our trip to Alaska and received his first full proof yesterday. He doesn’t plan to print a lot of extra books, but I would be curious to know if anyone has any interest in purchasing a copy (I thought of this last night and still need to check with Merlin about it).

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Post Trip Items: German Documentary w/ Alaska Or Rust Folks

January 5, 2018 • CATEGORIES: Alaska Or Rust Trip, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: Here’s the updated link: https://www.rbb-online.de/fernsehen/programm/18_02_2024/1929740.html

Karl Teuschl, a documentary filmmaker from Germany, included a couple of our Alaska Or Rust folks in his newest film that was released yesterday in parts of Europe (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). It’s a beautiful documentary that covers the Alaska Highway and gives viewers a good sense of the road conditions, the scenery and the feel of driving the highway.

Two of the Alaska Or Rust jeeps appear at the 18:30 mark. The interview with Marty Tilford, Don Brown, Rob and Diane Stafford starts at the 19:38 mark. It ends at 20:30. Most of it is in German. Unfortunately, Ann and I headed south just before the point where we would have met up with Karl, so after six months of emails he and I didn’t get a chance to meet.

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L to R: Diana Stafford, Rob Stafford, Don Brown, Marty Tilford

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A good shot of the remoteness of the highway.

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Nice inclusion of the eWillys sticker 🙂

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Post Trip Items: Alaska Or Rust Article in Dispatcher Magazine

November 22, 2017 • CATEGORIES: Alaska Or Rust Trip, Features, Magazine This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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The Fall 2017 issue of Dispatcher Magazine arrived in my mailbox yesterday. Kevin and Bill put together a great article on the Alaska Trip.

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Post Trip Items: Interview with Hugo Vidal

September 23, 2017 • CATEGORIES: Alaska Or Rust Trip, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Here’s the interview the CBC Yukon did with Hugo Vidal on August 1st in Whitehorse, Yukon, which was also the night of his 84th birthday. It recounts his trip through Whitehorse in 1955.

I was sitting with Hugo when he did the interview. Unfortunately, during parts of the interview, Around the 4:42 mark he asks “have I told you the little poem” well that was him turning to me (away from the microphone). I was thinking at the time, NO … keep talking to the interviewer!!

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