Heading for the Hills!
It was determined that we should both get new rear tires – if at all possible. Our bikes, Verity and Lily, are similarly spec’d and that meant we shared common tire sizes. The local Yamaha dealer makes most of its …
Ay Chihuahua!
Highway 29, also known as the Don Philips Way, is the road less traveled out of Fort St. John. It follows the Peace River along its tall bank through rolling farmland that made a pleasant change from the endlessly identical …
Civilization – Ho!
It took some getting used to, the distances up there. After a leisurely start, with another turn around the hot springs, we pointed our noses south and made our way to Fort St. John, some 430 miles away. We paused …
A Soak in the Woods
We had just finished a 500 mile ride out of Haines Junction that included a quick stop in Whitehorse for breakfast and for Sledge to buy a new pair of boots. Back on the AlCan we blew by the turn …
One Tok Over the Line
Free camping sometimes comes at a price. In Alaska that price is your donation in blood to the local mosquitoes. By this time we were pretty sanguine about the whole bug thing and skilled enough at decamping that we kept …
Andy, Sven’s Hostel and Into the Wild
When we first met Andy on the road heading north I assumed that with her big white Ford F-350 and air of self-confidence she was an oil company executive on a mission. Perhaps there had been an case of sexual …
Hey! Hey! Hey! It's Prudhoe Bay!
The run out to the Arctic Ocean north of the Brooks Range is wilderness in the truest sense of the word. Trees pretty much give up just south of the Atigun Pass, which at 4,500’ isn’t all that high, but …
Burning Rubber
An hour out of Portland on our first day we pulled over and ate lunch at the Playa Azul in Kalama. It wasn’t so much that we were hungry, it was more that we needed a break and the timing …
Three Days in Central Oregon – Day 3
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