IMO, if you really want to "see" a lot of AK, buy some plane tickets on ERA or other smaller outfits and fly into some smaller towns. The planes fly low enough to give you a good look at what Alaska looks like. Just do it on a nice day. Flying through the mountain passes is a hoot. Spend a day or two in Dillingham or some other small town getting the flavor and go back to the big city and head up to Denali etc.
Kind of what I was thinking as well. (ERA is Ravn now though; hard to keep up with the Hageland- Cape Smythe-Frontier-ERA-Ravn names and renaming with the small company take-overs/mergers.)
