Btom,
Sorry to hear about the damage to your Bus. When we went about 3 years ago now we didn’t experience much if any damage. I replaced the windshields but they both had existing cracks. No other damage. Lots of dust and dirt…we didnt’ do the tour and I would agree with dry camping and using pullouts.
Where about would you say was the worst part of the trip. I realize it’s always changing but for us it was Distruction Bay to Tok… where there basically wasn’t a finished road. they were working on it and required a pilot car for large parts of it. we took it really slow and then took the ferry from Haines to Bellingham Wa which is another story all to it self.
Bill