The last Canada and Alaska ride I had a decent night’s sleep in the tent, particularly when I added a second comforter. It had rained all night and was pretty cold. I packed up and loaded Kymani in the rain. I checked the weather and it didn’t look like it was going to let up […]
Late start Since I didn’t have a long way to go, I could take a slow morning and have an extra cup of coffee. I was grateful, as the rain was still streaming from the sky. Packing up, I got soaked while loading my gear onto Kymani. I had a fourth cup of coffee, hoping
Santa Claus Since I was ahead of schedule due to skipped stops, I decided to stay a couple of days in North Pole since the camping was free. I thought I’d go see the Santa house and check the place out. I’m no fan of Christmas, but my daughter is, so I could potentially get
Attitude is everything I called the family that night and told them how tired I was of the weather. I was also tired, homesick, and sore from so much riding. At this moment, all I wanted was to come home. My biggest cheerleader, my BFG, told me that I couldn’t come home until I went
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A new plan After a night of thinking of ways to make my gas stretch, the consequences of running out of gas on a remote (Alaska remote, not continental US remote), and if I wanted to spend my vacation from work worrying about silly things, I decided to skip McCarthy. The reward was just not
Heart Lake Heart Lake campground was okay, but there was no water available. I had to get it from the lake. It doesn’t sound too bad, however there was only one campsite that had access to the lake and it wasn’t mine. Fortunately, a couple of nice guys from eastern Canada had it and told
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Hot Vernon, BC was hot! And, the enormity of what I was wanting to do had finally hit me as I had ridden into Canada the previous day. I didn’t sleep well and the anxiety was hitting me. I talked to my family and felt much better. I loaded up the bike and hit the
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Another thunderstorm I woke up at about 0300 to flashing lights. I initially thought it was a problem with a street light or something, but very quickly realized it was a distant thunderstorm. It was so far off, I couldn’t hear the thunder, I could only see the lightening. It took about 40 minutes before
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Colossal thunderstorm I woke in the night to flashing lights and the distant growl of thunder. Laying awake in my tent, I enjoyed the show. It was distant, so it was nice to watch. It wasn’t long though, before the first drops of rain started to fall. Now was the time to worry. Was this
Wonderful day I got to spend a wonderful day with Glenn’s parents and was so happy. His mother Inge took me on a tour of the area and we went and picked up a can of gas for my JetBoil and a new memory card for the GoPro. It was really great to see all
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