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For Bob Perdrizet of Searsport, there is truly no time like the present.

That's why the 91-year-old avid gardener and longtime midcoast resident packed up his Honda CR-V in May for a solo adventure to Alaska and back.

Perdrizet said he was fed up with the rain that was inundating his gardens, but there was another reason he wanted to go.

"I've got five children. They all tried to talk me out of it," the chipper nonagenarian said earlier this week while taking a break from working in his Searsport garden plot. "I said, 'I'm going to be 92 in July. This is my last shot at it.' When you're in the 90s, how many days do you have left?"

So, he made good on an old dream of driving north and west across Maine, most of Canada and into Alaska, which became a state in 1959 when he was 38 years old.

"I wanted to see how the pioneers did it. I can't believe they did it," Perdrizet said. "I was amazed."

His 11,000-mile round-trip journey included up-close-and-personal moose sightings, some tricky traffic around Montreal, chilly hotel rooms and much more. There were massive, snow-capped mountains, glaciers, grizzly bears and mountain sheep that licked salt off the road surfaces. He met incredibly friendly, helpful folks at his hotel in Anchorage. He left his business card under a rock outcropping in British Columbia.

Was it worth it? Undoubtedly yes, Perdrizet said.

"I'm dumbfounded when I see old people retire and sit back," he said. "There's no reason why they can't have an active life. If not physically, then mentally. I hate the word 'retire.' You retire to a new venture. A new hobby. A new anything."

His trip to Alaska was just the latest, and likely not the last, adventure in a life packed with them. As a 12-year-old growing up in Connecticut in the Great Depression, he and some buddies decided to hop freight trains to California and search for gold. They made it halfway across the country before turning back because a friend was homesick.

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