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We had a great time in Dawson City with our host Melodie and her friends. This historic gold rush mining town still has all dirt streets and wooden sidewalks to keep pedestrians clean when the dirt turns into mud. Sharon spent lots of time delving into the history and I (Chris) spent my time working […]

The Dempster Highway…We had been hearing stories from motorcyclists about ‘The Dempster’ since before we entered Canada over three months ago. Stories of muddy roads, slick clay, snow in the summer, crashed bikes, and ruined trips. And other stories of beautiful scenery, amazing wildlife, and an epic unpaved road for adventure motorcyclists. Here is our

After the Kenai Peninsula we had planned to head to the Valdez area, however, we met so many travelers who told us we had to go to a town called McCarthy and see the Kenicott Mining historical park, we went there instead. They were right, it is a place not to be missed! The 73

After we left Denali National Park we drove to the town of Talkeetna and visited the Denali Mountaineering Center. This is where all climbers must go who want to attempt to summit Mt. Denali. We found a few interesting facts: only about half the climbers are able to summit because the weather can be very

We hope this update finds you doing well! We are currently in Dawson City in the Yukon. We are drying out from a monsoon type rain storm that completely drenched us yesterday. Bad for off-road riding; good for catching up on blogs. Just a heads up, if you had not noticed already, we have very

Well, there just isn’t enough time to catch you up to our current location. So, even though we are currently in Wasilla, Alaska this update is only going to cover from Whitehorse in the Yukon through our arrival in Alaska and on to the ‘North Pole'(it’s a real town). The good news is it will

The scenery since we have entered Canada has been absolutely stunning! It seems like every ten minutes some gorgeous new mountain or river reveals itself. And because of the gigantic scale of the mountains we can never seem to take it all in! Only the panoramic pictures express how majestic and vast are the western

We made it!  We are on the road and headed north!  Praise God! It hardly seems real after more than ten years of dreaming and planning and preparing.  <Pinching myself>  Ouch!  It’s Real.  Our big excitement yesterday, Day 1 of trip, was me running out of gas, haha :).  First time that has ever happened