Although I don't endorse the term 'Bucket List' I did have a plan to visit the 4 corners of North America by road. I had originally planned to go to Inuvik, but I found Prudhoe Bay to be further north. I thought it would be cool to wade in the Arctic Ocean.

The James Dalton highway goes there, it's 425 miles of gravel, starting about 100 miles north of Fairbanks Alaska. It is serviced at the half way point by a construction camp called Coldfoot. My 1988 Suzuki Intruder 1400 held about 13L of gas and got just over 180 km a tank hence my need to carry extra fuel containers. The bright red jerry cans strapped to the bike gave the inspiration for the Suicide Bomber Tour name.

Although 2004 marked my 15th consecutive summer of bike trips it marked the first time I did any serious work on chronicling the journey. The state of technology at the time had me using a 6 MP Olympus digital camera that also shot 640 x 480 video footage, a remarkable feat at the time.

I did not carry a laptop in those days so I could not produced video nightly, but did produce my trip as a DVD upon my return. The project files were stored on a removable hard drive and were lost when that drive failed a year later. Thusly the video you will see here has been ripped from the only existing DVD and while not the greatest to begin with it has also now suffered the indignation of MPEG2 compression and rendering to H.264.

Please pardon the quality!