Friday, July 11, 2008

Wow...........


Words & photo's just can't begin to describe what we're seeing up here. This is truly unspoiled wilderness. We ride for an hour or more & there aren't any signs of humans anywhere (except the road iteself). This first photo was shot from the shoulder of the Alaska Highway in the Yukon. we stopped to take the photo and the was absolutely no noise of any kind, very strange for a city boy used to hearing air conditioners, pool pumps, TV's, traffic, etc, etc.... Breathtaking just doesn't begin to describe how amazing it is up here.


And, we've met some very interesting folks along the highway. This guy was probaly in his mid 60's, & had 2 dogs in the sidecar. It's a 2 wheel drive Ural.. he lives on an island on the west coast of B.C. and rides it over the ice to the mainland in the winter... Just one of the very interesting characters we've met. One thing I've noticed is that we haven't seen any young riders on the highway... They're all around our age, lot's & lot's of gray hair. There are probably about as many bikes on the highway as cars....



And.... The road never ends........


Just incredible... I have to leave it at that.

we're about 200 miles from the Alaska border... called ahead for reservations & everything farther ahead was sold out, so we had to stop early again. We hear that there is a 47 mile stretch up ahead that's really bad and we want to hit that in good daylight, we've bumped into several bikers headed south that warned us about it.

Well, tomorrow we'll hit Alaska in pretty early in the day, at that point Mike & I will have ridden in all 49 states you can drive to and every Canadian Province & Territory that has a road to it....

Hopefully we can update again tomorrow.

1 comment:

Betty Boop said...

I really wish I was sharing this adventure with you guys. After traveling with you and Mike to the east side of Canada 3 years ago, I definitely "get it". . ."It" being the freedom, beauty and self-satisfaction of the open road. This is a trip of a lifetime, and I'll re-live it with you through your blog and pictures. Thank you for sharing the sights, sounds and smells. MJ