Retired photographer Don Roese, if all goes as planned, will be heading in the other direction, to his favorite state, Alaska, next summer. 

He swapped his red Jeep for a truck for the purpose. It's going to be a bumpy ride, Mary Ann!

Don and his insurance company talk a lot after his trips to Alaska. Rocks dinged his camper so badly one year that the insurance guys forked over a few grand to pay for fixing it up.