Starting Day 7
We’ve made it to day 7. Today we start our trip on the famous Alaska highway. The weather is supposed to be 75 and sunny all day, that will be so nice after the days of rain we’ve had to ride through. so far we’ve covered 3 Province’s we will enter the Yukon Territory tomorrow. Our bikes have been running good.
We are in Dawson Creek today, leaving out this morning for Fort Nelson. So apparently this town is pretty dangerous, lots of gang and drug activity, who would’ve thought…. I guess when the first person we talk to on the streets is on a mobility scooter trying to sell us “new” goods by the Alaska Highway sign that should’ve been our first indicator. There isn’t much to do here, but it’s an iconic part of our journey and I’m glad we’ll be out of here, I had to go check and see if our bikes were still here.
We spent some time in Banff and Jasper, stunning views and the photos absolutely don’t do any justice to what it looks like in person. We went up the skytram in Jasper, that was really cool. There is a cafe at the top and it was almost empty we got the best seats in the house and honestly the prices were not that bad considering where you are eating.
We are starting to see a lot more wildlife on the roads, still haven’t seen a bear yet, we are both excited to see our first one, we just missed a mama grizzly and her cubs yesterday, some other travelers showed us some pics, we must of been about 20 mins to late.
At this point we have a pretty good system of unloading and loading our bikes everyday. It goes pretty fast, you kind’ve get a rhythm going and it goes together like clockwork.
So far here are the stats of problems we’ve had with our bikes, Brandons has tipped over twice, once on accident the other the wind literally blew it over while sitting in the parking lot, it broke his mirror and clutch lever, my bike got a nail in the rear tire the other night but only went into one of the tread knobs sideways and I was able to pull it out with two fingers so damage done. we’ve been pretty lucky. I think we now have our gear where we want it on the bikes, I had to rearrange my luggage and move stuff around to shift the weight. We decided to start filling our fuel cans now, we’ve had to many close calls on running out of fuel, so with that added weight of 3 gallons on my rear end I moved my top bag onto my duffle on the rear seat. The bike handles great, we hit some big twisties and I rode it hard even scraping a foot peg. Well thats it for now, get out there and make some memories, you don’t want to be old and decrepit and have only dreams of what you could’ve done…..Ride on!
