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Sounds like a Russian sub, or maybe a new Van Halen album. Tires have about 13,500km's at the moment, the rear is almost done, I won't put more than another 1k on it. The front is looking great. As for the K60's in general, I really like them. Super in the dirt, riding the bike down the Denali...

Pushing your personal comfort zone is tough too. It's one of those things you may not even be aware of until you get out there and are doing it. I use the home made cat can stove 99% of the time, with the windscreen very closely wrapped around the pot. There is still a bit of room around the...

Alaska Just before crossing into Alaska, we passed the 20,000km mark for the trip. Wow! We’ve really been putting some miles down so far and are both starting to feel it. Alaska can be summed up into one word. Actually, no it can’t. It has turned out to be the visual highlight of our trip so...

Whitehorse Robert Service Campground is located just outside Whitehorse right along the Yukon river, a great spot if you’re riding a bike. First, it is just a tent campground so no RV’s here. Also because we were on a bike, we were allowed to ride in to our site. Anyone in a car has to park...

Re: Into the Yukon Yup long gone. We did have a brush with the fires in BC so to speak. There was a 40km stretch of Hwy16 that was being detoured 150km (due to fires) over dirt and a long stretch with a pilot car, at least that's the way it looked at night. By morning it was cleared up enough...

Into the Yukon Another beautiful day on the road. Every so often either Lori or I get this feeling that we're going to see an animal. It doesn't always happen but in this instance a few miles down the road, we see some rather large droppings on the highway and some worn out patches in the...

Thanks RR. We do have bug nets for our heads and some nylon windbreakers. Getting everything put on for the bathroom dash is another story though, especially if both of those items are in a pannier on the bike... Indeed we agree about the schedule stuff. We had some things we committed to here...

Moving through Alberta was somewhat on the uneventful side once we got clear of Jasper. We killed a day in Edmonton getting the bike serviced and ended up in Grand Prairie a couple of days later. I was pretty excited to be heading north, not only closer to Alaska, but I was also looking forward...

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Banff & Jasper In the morning we awoke to water dripping into our tent. Rain? That's strange, the forecast didn't mention rain! We looked outside to find a sprinkler strategically placed on our campsite, so that it covered the picnic table with our towels and about half the tent. Not a great...

Re: Glacier National Park We're not planning on hitchhiking too much, nor have we picked up any, although we've seen quite a few people doing it out here. We're also booked in for the Haines to Prince Rupert ferry, so no Cassiar for us. We actually managed to fly through that construction for...

Glacier National Park Only Glacier National Park stood between us and getting back into Canada. Another stunning ride today up Going-to-the-Sun Road. Saw a mountain goat casually strolling next to the road near the top. The road would lead us up that mountain…somewhere. Pretty...

We saw the same thing and decided to head to Fairbanks for now. We have to pick up a package in Anchorage in a few days so we'll try and take our time getting there.

Hey MD, we're aiming for Tok today, then doing the loop, Fairbanks, Denali, Anchorage. We're back on a schedule as we have to meet the Haines to Prince Rupert ferry (with a 1 day layover in Juno). We were thinking of riding into Homer (and Anchor Point), so now I'm wondering if the Valdez boat...

So far along the Alaska Highway alone, we're at 4 bear sightings, 3 moose, 2 elk, a herd of buffalo and 1 big horned sheep. All were either on the road or within a few feet of the road. Not to mention all the crows sitting on the road wanting to play chicken. It's a zoo out here I tell ya.

We tried to come up with a plan for the day over breakfast at Cafe Regis in Red Lodge, just a few minutes from the campground. We looked north on the map and saw an ugly I-90 looking back at us, so we did the most reasonable thing we could think of, we headed back to Yellowstone, back along...

She's finally feeling better, thanks. There's one thing I don't miss, summer weekend traffic coming out of the city. Ugh! Except for the computer, everything gets charged on the bike. I have a Powerlet (at the front of the bike) plug to dual 12V. 1 of the 12V plugs is typically occupied with...

Re: Teton's, Yellowstone & Beartooth Pass Ours too, we're using a Hoya circular polarizing UV filter. No filter on the Lumix but Lori likes the HDR setting on it and seems to think it helps.

Re: Teton's, Yellowstone & Beartooth Pass I always find it interesting to see a sign indicating a turn to the left but the road actually turning to the right first. It’s difficult...no, it’s downright impossible to just casually ride a road like this. The constant switchbacks and s-bends...

Teton's, Yellowstone & Beartooth Pass Wow, what a spectacular day! We rode through the Teton's, Yellowstone and finally up to almost 11,000 feet over Beartooth Pass into Montana. That's a lot to take in in one day I have to say. I have this strange sensation when we do days like this where the...