Life, travel and other such adventures.

Day 9 – Sunday, July 5 Yesterday we made it to the beginning of the Alaska Highway. Confusingly, it doesn’t actually start in Alaska, but in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. We still had all of British Columbia and the Yukon to ride through before the road enters it’s namesake state. We stopped for the night just outside of Fort St. John, had dinner and made another new friend who we rode with for most of the day. The Alaska Highway was originally built by the Army Core of Engineers in... Read The Rest →

Yesterday we got to beginning of the Alaska Highway. Now for the fun part. I’m sure their will be lots to tell about tonight. From pics-day 8

Yesterday we made it to the start of the Alaska Highway. Now we’re getting to the good part….

Yesterday we woke up somewhere just outside of Winnipeg. It was a good riding day – great weather that urged us on past 500 miles – a good thing since we’ve been playing catch-up for the last few days. As we’ve ridden west, rolling hills have given way to open prairies. Unfortunately for us, a lot of the scenery earlier in the trip was obscured by the rain and fog on our face shields. But as the weather was a bit more gracious the last couple of days we seen... Read The Rest →

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There’s something remarkably therapeutic about riding the last 140 miles of the day under clear, sunny skies. It goes a long way in mending the insults and injuries from the weather and luck over the past couple of days. You forget that just 3 hours ago your fingers were numb and you were sitting in a cafe clutching a cup of coffee working up the gumption to get back on the bike. Instead, your head is clear, you’re feeling good and you’ll be sad to call it a day when... Read The Rest →

New rule: no stopping without getting gas. Wish us luck – it’s still raining. Here are pics from the the last couple of days. I had some great ones of Montreal but for some reason the camera didn’t save them.

It’s not reeeaaally an adventure until something doesn’t go quite as planned. Yesterday morning in Montreal James and I took a bit of time seeing some of the city before hitting the road. It was going to make for a late night, but we figured we could do it and still make our destination. Enter the rain. We rode in the rain for almost 3 hours yesterday. Big, heavy rain drops that stung when they hit. At one point we pulled over to a Walmart to get some Rainex because... Read The Rest →

We did it. It’s hard to believe, but we actually got all packed up and on the road today. And only 3.5 hours later than our planned departure – that’s almost a record for us! The thing about starting a big adventure ride is that it starts the same way as any other ride. Well, aside from the gear laden bikes and months of planning. You hop on and start out of your driveway, down your street and through your neighborhood. It actually takes quite some time into the trip... Read The Rest →

Or so says one of my favorite writers, Hunter S. Thompson, who quickly followed the statement with “That’s why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.” Hooray for fast motorcycles and hooray for motorcycles that will help you get to the arctic circle and back! Shockingly, there are only two days left before we depart for Alaska. I’m vacillating between uber excitement and staving off the surge of panic that inevitably comes with taking 34 days off from work to ride over 11,000 miles across country – much of which will be... Read The Rest →