Our bike adventure started in 2003 when we bought our first bike, a 2003 Buell Lightning. For the first three years we explored “local” roads & landmarks in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. In 2006 I brought home Shawn’s Uly as a birthday surprise! With the comfortable upgrade, and the ability to carry more luggage, our trips got…
West Coast 2016
Summer is officially here and we are gearing up for a great ride to the West Coast. We’ll also swing North for a few days at Banff with Rob & Staci. Although it isn’t as epic as Alaska, we will cover close to 7,000 miles. On this trip we’ll visit 14 states and 2 Canadian…
Huskys and Razors – Moab 2015
Moab was a brief, but great summer get away in June 2015 with some of our best friends! You will recognize Rob from our trek to Alaska. This time his wife Staci joined us, along with Kendall & Alissa. We spent two short days on the dirt bikes in Moab. One of the highlights was the…
20 Years + 2 New Bikes = Happiness
Riding is a huge part of our life. Shawn often rides to work, like so many other realtors (haha!)! We run errands on the bikes, and our vacations usually include riding. In December we celebrated our 20 year anniversary with two new bikes. For us, traditional gifts like china or platinum wouldn’t be nearly as…
Eat & Sleep
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…
Gear Review
If you checked out our packing list, you know we took a variety of things with us. We felt like we were well packed when we took off. Everything fit on the bikes and we did our best to bring all the necessities without having extras. If I were taking the trip again there are…
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…
Most Amazing Sunset
Between Anchorage & Seward. Words can’t describe how beautiful it is here!
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…
Buell Vicariously 