This entry will contain our entire trip from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, and back again. The elapsed time was exactly 40 hours for the entire journey; from 0500 Saturday morning to 2100 Sunday night, so I am just going to treat it like one long day, which it was. One loooong day! Consequently, this will be one loooong read! No, really! A really long read, like get a sammich and a beer long read! Not on your lunch hour, cuz you'll be late getting back to work! Tha...

Although I was up quite early, I can only imagine when Bill gets up, I was waiting for a possible video shoot in Toronto to firm up or go away. Being 4 hours behind Ontario was frustrating to say the least. I had to delay our 0900 departure time at least an hour, I called Bill with the news and, naturally, he took it in stride. Here is his confutation of yesterday's blog: Hi, Bill here. I just read Lou's blog and concur with everything he said. It's quite enter...

Here is a rebuttal from my comments preceding Bill's blog post: When Lou said that he had requested that I contribute to his blog, I think a better word would be hounded. And I certainly opened pandora station box when I casually mentioned that he was an accomplished rider. One day we are travelling at a comfy 140 kph and after my blog, he brought it up to 200 kph. Fortunately (Agnes also reads this blog) I can honestly say that I did not go 200 kph but my litt...

We leave The Beav at The Crack of Bill, 0900 sharp, it was a beautiful blue sky day. We had met a guy at the bar in Buckshot Betty's who was part of the construction crew on the road repair sites we had driven through yesterday. He said we'd have great roads today, we chose to believe him, but kept some doubts in check, we're in the Yukon after all! The Canadian border is just minutes outside of The Beav but US customs is 30 kms further down. We get there in abo...

Back in my room at 2130 I sit at my laptop and wait for inspiration, and nothing comes. I watch a little TV, read a bit on my iPad and fall fast asleep. My lethargy undoubtedly brought on by my last beverage at The Skagway Brewing co. which was a Rusty Nail, a potent adult beverage (very tasty too) back home, but made more so in 'merica, the land of the free pour! I jolt awake at 0113 with the story almost completely written in my mind, it is rush to get it all ...