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The morning of Lolo Pass, we wake up in Kamiah, ID, and are very soon on Lolo, enjoying some of the best riding imaginable. This is day 36 – more than a month on the road, and our bikes have become extensions of our bodies. Lolo verifies this – we’re running a spirited pace, but
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We pack our bikes in an underground parking lot in Vancouver. It’s been a whole day off the bikes, and as has been the norm, we miss being in the saddle. The time off is cherished, but this is a motorcycling adventure, so we’re all eager to be off on the next leg. The trip
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Our time in Prince George is largely unremarkable, except it’s the first time in a while for a modern hotel experience. It’s a run of the mill, national chain hotel, but it signals we are one step closer to a more familiar way of life. Until now, we’ve been staying in places that were someone’s
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As we leave Stewart on 37A, heading for 37, we are treated to several vistas we missed on the way in – perhaps because of fatigue or just the perspective of traveling in the opposite direction. Whatever the reason, we see waterfalls that start very high in the peaks and travel in stages to the
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As we pull out of Whitehorse, the street tires are remarkably smooth, after many miles on the blocky dirt tires. We head back to a breakfast joint we found the first time through, and are treated to a sassy waitress and good omelets. This morning, like every morning is a combination of places we’ve never
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Regrouping after Deadhorse, we head from Fairbanks to Talkeetna. It’s not a long trip, so we add in a road we’ve heard is special – the Denali Highway. Southeast out of Fairbanks, we head to Delta Junction, and then due south to Paxson. All are little towns, little Alaska towns with almost no population (Paxson:26).
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We’ve been kicking around this question about several pieces of this ride. It asks you to arrive at a decision that might be unpopular – NO could be interpreted as it having been a mistake; YES could mean a commitment to plan another trip 🙂 In the matter of Prudhoe Bay/Deadhorse, it’s a decidedly unanimous
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Day 21 opens with us up early, and doing our morning exercise routine. For me, this is either the set of exercises I have developed from the various caregivers I saw before departing, or a 14 minute video I follow along from Jonathan Ferguson, the structural therapist who worked on my body for a few
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I’ve never done much riding in the dirt. I have been routing and leading group street rides for a long time, and it’s a running joke with folks with whom I’ve ridden that there will inevitably be a dirt road somewhere during a ride I lead. It comes from a long ago habit of finding
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Part of our advanced planning included mapping out where we would wear out our first set of street tires, and switch to a tire more suited for the dirt and gravel we anticipated up north. Our best guess was Yukon Territory (YT), so we set up with Yukon Yamaha in Whitehorse, YT to have our
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