Real Stories

Share your story of leaving Alaska

Your experience can help someone who's just starting to plan. Write as much or as little as you like. Our editors review every story before it's published.

First name (optional)

Where in Alaska you left *

Destination state *

Destination city (optional)

Year you moved

Household (optional)

Why I left *

What made you decide to go?

What I wish I'd known

Anything you'd tell yourself before the move.

The move itself

Shipping, driving the ALCAN, flying, timing.

Life after

How it's going in the Lower 48.

Tips *

Your best practical advice for someone planning the same move.

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Email (optional, private)

Only so an editor can ask a question. Never published.

I agree that Life After Alaska may review, lightly edit and publish my story. I understand it will be reviewed before publishing, that only my first name will be shown, and that emails, phone numbers and street addresses are removed and never shown.