We love good food & a good night of sleep. After days on the road & eating instant meals from a bag, we looked forward to days where we could eat good food & rest in a great place. Here were a few of our favorite spots. Best Eats: Dash Bistro, Stewart, BC (Hyder); Fabulous food…
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Favorite Roads
A year ago we were spending all of our free time planning for Alaska. We were shopping for gear, planning routes, researching camping spots & getting ready for our biggest adventure ever! This winter & spring we have spent our free time riding our new dirt bikes. Our 20th wedding anniversary was in December &…
The List – Bike Repairs From The Trek
I’ll see if I can get a comprehensive list of the repairs that were made on our bikes during the trip, and a list of repairs that are now needed as a result of this trip. Shawn can let me know if I have forgotten anything. If we had replaced my wheel bearings, belt, and…
Favorite Things
I’ve been asked quite a few times what my favorite thing that we did on vacation, and what was the coolest thing we saw. I can’t pick just 1 thing. I don’t think I can even pick 10 things. We were on the road for 24 days and most of those days were spent seeing cool…
Home
After riding 734 miles today, we made it home tonight. We had beautiful weather today! It was sunny and about 70’F all day. I was dreading this last stretch, worried we would ride through 100′ heat in the Midwest. We had a nice ride through the Badlands this morning. Just a short detour to see another…
Billings, MT to Rapid City, SD
This morning Shawn got both Uly’s fixed up. New brake pads, new motor mount & he picked a rock out of my belt. Most of the ride was pretty boring (compared to Alaska & Canada). We traveled through MT & WY. We took a detour off of I 90 and drove Hwy 16 through the…
Random Photos
I’ll try to label these photos as I post them so you are able to see where they were taken. In no particular order, here are some additional pics from our journey!
Calgary to Billings
We finally moved out of Calgary yesterday afternoon after lunch. All was well in the world. We had a new belt on the ’06 Uly and the weather was perfect for riding. Warm, comfortable, overcast, but no rain. We had about an 8 1/2 hour ride ahead of us according to Garmin. Around 9pm we stopped…
Dawson Creek to Jasper National Park to Calgary
Yeah, the stop in Calgary wasn’t on the schedule for those of you keeping track. We originally thought we would go from Dawson Creek to Banff, but since we were ahead of schedule we spent some time with Eklunds & decided to go to Jasper & then on to a relative’s house in Foremost. Only…
Whitehorse to Liard Hot Springs (sort of) and Dawson Creek
The ride from Whitehorse to Liard Hot Springs was another gorgeous one. We saw tons of bears & bison! We stopped a bunch of times to take pictures. I wasn’t able to change my reservation at Liard since we were a day early so we ended up camping in a public area across from the…
Anchorage to Chistochina to Whitehorse Plus Whittier
We were briefly back on schedule, then off again! But the trip has continued to be fabulous (except for a few minor issues such as a punctured tire, barking dog & rain). Since I last posted, you have missed a little excitement. Friday night we stopped for gas & realized my back wheel bearing was…
Cantwell, AK to Anchorage Plus Seward
Being off schedule has given us some flexibility to fill in a few things we wanted to do, but didn’t originally have time. This morning Rob headed to Denali Highway & the 3 of us headed for Anchorage. We stopped a couple of times hoping to see Mt. McKinley, but there were just too many…
Fairbanks to Denali & Denali Highway
This morning we headed out of Fairbanks for Denali. We stayed at the 7 Gables Hotel the last 2 nights. All the rooms in Fairbanks were sold out & since we were back early, we didn’t have reservations. It had some nice qualities. It was big, it had 2 extra beds so there was room…
Arctic Circle Pics
Here are some more pics from our ‘good’ day on the Dalton! What a great day for riding & pictures. We crossed the Arctic Circle on our bikes from Kansas City!
Wiseman up the Dalton & Back to Fairbanks
Day before yesterday we headed out hoping to go to Deadhorse. We made it to within 20 miles of Antigen Pass and it was still lightly raining and the roads were getting slick. I was worried that if they got worse I would not be able to get through & we would be stuck camping in…
Fairbanks to Coldfoot
Yesterday we crossed the Arctic Circle! What an amazing ride! We are so far north, it has been a really cool experience. We crossed the huge Yukon river, and thankfully it was sunny & nice while we were there. The roads were mostly packed dirt and fairly good. We had to go through lots of…
Tok to Fairbanks
Today we made the short ride from Tok, AK to Fairbanks. Along the way we stopped at Delta Junction & the North Pole for some sight seeing & photos. We caught our first glimpse of the Alaskan Pipeline. It’s really warm here in Fairbanks. Another sunny, beautiful day! On the way up here we drove…
Photos from 7.11.14
Here are some of the pics from our journey & arrival to Alaska!
Teslin, YT to Tok, AK
We have arrived!! We rolled into Alaska this evening around 6:30pm local time. What a great ride! We hit a few sprinkles early this morning, but nothing significant. Then we had nice sunny riding weather again! The next 5 days look great as well, fingers crossed that it stays so nice! We have been so…
Hyder, AK to Teslin, YT
Salmon Glacier in Hyder is SO BEAUTIFUL! Daddy said the ride up there & the glacier was worth the trip up here. I did drop my bike on the dirt road on the way up the mountain. Everything was fine except my belt broke. We had a spare so 20 minutes later we were back…
Buell Vicariously 