We were somewhat re-Americanized today. I was rather surprised, and at first I did not even make the flimsy connection to it being the Alaskan Highway. We were still in the depths of British Columbia, so there theoretically should not have been a correlation between the road’s environment and the […]
Today was a quality day for simply enjoying the roads. We headed out of McBride and into the mountains, which reversed their earlier growth and shrunk to conifer-covered hills, eventually ending in smooth, rolling mounds of pasture land and farmland near Dawson Creek. I enjoyed leaning the Suzuki back and […]
Jasper was our turf today, and it continued to outdo itself like Banff had done the day before. The mountains rose up smoothly on both sides: God’s halfpipe. The wildlife was even better than we saw in Banff. The number was not as large, but the pickings were great. Later […]
The amount of summer daylight in the northern latitudes was great for traveling and setting up a camp in the evening, though synchronizing to the time of day was somewhat disorienting for us southerners. Watches had no place of consequence on a trip like this, but they were a subtle […]
I was writing in the lobby of our new temporary shelter (the Pointe Inn) this evening, but the vibes were not right. The only place to write was on a tabletop video game which had pixelated and pixilated ninjas beating people up, and the lighting was rather dim. I could […]
Dad’s natural wake up call came a little too early this morning for my comfort, but we did want to get moving for some accumulated miles. To help us get out on the road fairly quickly, we did the bulk of our motorcycling duties the prior night. Dad also concocted […]
Dad slept in more than I thought he would since he was gradually getting away from his pre-trip norm of long hours at work to put me through college, pay too many bills, and then gallivant off to a month-long trip to Alaska. He had to continue to suck it […]