Day 11 - Anchorage, alaska

We made it to Anchorage this evening. We fell a 100 miles short last night, which made us late tonight, but none the less we made it. We met my friend Joe and we are staying at his place outside of town in this great spot. We went and had a late dinner at this cool place with lots of blue grass. Now it is real late and the sun has not fully set.

Left Beaver Creek in the Yukon about 11 am this morning. Crossed the border back in the old USA and had more bad roads. Not as bad as yesterday, though. Really great ride this afternoon. Great tuns and nice pavement, cool temperatures. Brian and PMR said the back tire would go fast..... and it did. I have been looking at it randomly and it has been fine..... Today I looked at the tire and it is bare, I mean bear. Made it 189 more miles.... Will have to figure that out soon.

Beautiful weather today. Right as I was turning onto Joe's street my gear shifter fell off. Made it!

Day 10 - Skagway, AK to beaver Creek, Yukon, Canada

Minnesota group tightens my steering bolt. It was finger tight! Scary!

Awesome gravel roads!

White Pass, litterally!

Jolie and her friend

Jolie is extreme!

Jolie at Breakfast pondering the world's problems. She settled for a soda, EH!


Day 10 (sorry it is late)

Day 10
We got up and walked around Skagway- it was so cold that we both bought hats and I got a scarf too- then we headed out for Tok. Again the fog was crazy thick. I had to drive about 25mph for about 30 miles.
Wedidn’t quiet make it to Tok, and stopped in Beaver Creek. The drive great EXCEPT for about thre last 100 miles. This is the patch of raod that all the stories are about. Imagine 100 miles of roller coaster. I thought I lost thetruck a time or two in a pot hole and was just shy of throwing up for about an hour. WOW. What an experience.
-Jolie

Day 9 (sorry it is late)- Toad RIver, Yukon to Skagway, AK, USA

Day 9
The day started off very beautiful- like all of our days. We covered a lot of ground and made it to our destination- Skagway, ALASKA!!! The drive wasn’t bad and we say several bears, a few buffalo, and a handful of mountain goats.
The most interesting part of the day was driving over White Pass into Skagway. I think it was the prettiest yet. Then it got cold and I thought it was raining, but it was really just extremely thick, very eerie fog. The fog was so thick that I missed the welcome sign ( that sits about 15 ft. off the road) and lost sam- he was at the sign waiting for me and taking pictures for some other travelers.
When we got to the border, I was so excited and said something to the border guy about driving through the clouds and I must have been grinning from ear to ear because he looked at me like I was about 5 years old and said “did you like that?”
Yeeh, Skagway! I’m excited to see all the places that sam has talked about over the years!!
-Jolie


Made it to the southern part of AK. Feel good, cold and more cold.
Peace
Sam