82 DAYS LEFT
We are down to 82 days until we head out. My bike is ready to go, Brandons is just about ready. I’ve been going out and laying some miles down trying to work out any bugs and make any small adjustments now. We have a few short weekend trips planned before we leave, I just installed my sergeant seat, honestly its about as comfortable as my stock seat, except for the fact it’s a little wider and sits more level on the bike. The one thing I hated about my stock seat was it leaned me into the tank to much, but I put on 2600 miles on it and it wasn’t that bad.
I’m still researching tires, I think I’m going with the Dunlop trail max missions, my other choice was the Mitas E07 Plus. I guess I’m still on the fence but leaning more towards the Dunlops. I have the tracker all setup and figured out, all the settings are where we need them. It’ll send a location update every 2 minutes, and the battery life is amazing. I ran it all last week, never turned it off and it still had 51% left still.
All of our routes are done and loaded into our GPS’s. We are running Garmin XT2’s, paired up with the Garmin tread app they work really well. You can plan your routes, they automatically sync to the GPS when they are turned on. This will be very handy when we make on the fly adjustments to our daily routes. We are expecting to get tips and advice while traveling, must see roads and attractions etc, etc…so we are prepared to deviate from our planned routes.
We have two ferry rides during the trip. The first one is Whittier to Valdez, AK it’s a 7 hour trip. The second one is Haines to Skagway, AK, only a 2 hour ride that time. We originally planned to take the ferry from Haines to Bellingham, WA but we decided to ride the Cassier highway back. It added 1500 miles to the trip. We figured the boat ride would get old after a few hours, it was going to take a week to get back on the ferry. I think we will have more fun riding the Cassier and see a lot more of Alaska and Canada, I mean it is a motorcycle trip so it only makes sense to ride it…..and it saved us about $1100 each, until next time……Ride On!
