On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 03:16:09 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:

Follow the great circle route about 2000 nm from BCB (VA) until you get to the start of the Alaska highway at Dawson
Creek, BC.

It was up to me as the most experienced cross-country pilot to plot
our routes to Alaska. I began by plotting a great circle as above,
but immediately rejected it. It would have taken us right smack over
the middle of Lake Superior, far too big a body of water to fly over;
and then we'd have had a long ride over completely uninteresting (and
inhospitable) terrain.

So we went west to Helena or Spokane before heading toward Dawson
Creek. We had interesting stops at the Amana Villages in Iowa; Wall,
S.D. (home of the infamous Wall Drug Store); Mt. Rushmore; and Helena,
a great place to visit.

vince norris