Home Map Route Pictures Guest book Journal Day 1  Saturday, July 16, 2005  516 miles  Day 2  Sunday, July 17, 2005  685 miles  Day 3  Monday, July 18, 2005  516 miles  Day 4  Tuesday, July 19, 2005  573 miles  Day 5  Wednesday, July 20, 2005  435 miles  Day 6  Thursday, July 21, 2005  698 miles  Day 7  Friday, July 22, 2005  225 miles  Day 8  Saturday, July 23, 2005  564 miles Arctic cr  Day 9  Sunday, July 24, 2005  0 miles Visiting Denali National Park.  Day 10  Monday, July 25, 2005  240 miles - Total 4452 miles

Day 1  |  Day 2  |  Day 3  |  Day 4  |  Day 5  |  Day 6  |  Day 7  |  Day 8  |  Day 9  |  Day 10  |  Day 11  |  Hi Res  |  Misc  |  Day6 Thursday July 21st, 698 miles I got up in the morning and it was raining again. I headed West on the Alaska Highway towards Whitehorse which is the capital of the Yukon territories. Did I mention it was raining, yes it rained continuously for the next 200 miles. It was cold and I was glad for the heated grips on the BMW and the electric heated vest. Both of them together barely kept you from the cold. I stopped for gas at Teslin where to my joy I found the bathroom had a hand dryer which was perfect for warming up. I stepped outside and saw two other BMW GS', I started talking to the riders and learnt that they left San Diego on Saturday morning and they were also heading to Alaska. We rode together to the next gas station and the next. When we got to Haines Junction in the Yukon at about 5:30PM, we gauged each others willingness to continue riding and then decided to ride together all the way to Alaska. We had dinner at Destruction Bay in the Yukon and we called ahead to reserve the last two rooms available at the snowshoe motel in Tok, Alaska. I do not have the words to describe the part of the world that we rode through for the next hundred miles; this was the Kluane Lake and Kluane Wilderness area. We rode and rode and rode into the night, however it was not dark, and the sun was up. The sun was up at 10:30PM when we crossed into Alaska and into a different time zone, I set my watch an hour back. It was about another 100 miles to Tok. We arrived at midnight, Alaska Time and the sun had just set. Everything was closed so we went to a convenience store where we bought some nachos and microwaved a cup of Ramen noodles.  7/21/2005 7:40:08 PM  Bear crossed Alaska Hwy in front of us 2  7/21/2005 7:39:03 PM  Bear crossed Alaska Hwy in front of us  7/21/2005 7:39:02 PM  200 miles of rain on Alaska Hwy on Day6  7/21/2005 7:38:13 PM  Cassiar Hwy dirt  7/21/2005 7:36:51 PM  Construction on Alaska Hwy Day6  7/21/2005 7:35:53 PM  Day6 Eleven PM reached Alaska  7/21/2005 7:34:53 PM  Dog in Watson Lake  7/21/2005 7:33:50 PM  Filling up at Beaver Creek Yukon Ten Thirty PM Day6  7/21/2005 7:32:47 PM  Haines Junction Yukon Alaska Hwy  7/21/2005 7:31:51 PM  Kluane Lake Yukon 2  7/21/2005 7:30:06 PM  Kluane Lake Yukon 3  7/21/2005 7:29:38 PM  Kluane Lake Yukon  7/21/2005 7:28:04 PM  Met Rick and Rich on the Alaska Hwy Day6  7/21/2005 7:26:24 PM  Midnight PST 11PM Alaska time Day6  7/21/2005 7:24:07 PM  More Midnight PST 11PM Alaska time Day6  7/21/2005 7:22:57 PM  Signpost Forest in Watson Lake  7/21/2005 7:21:13 PM  More Rain on Alaska Hwy Day6  7/21/2005 7:18:44 PM  US Border Alaska Hwy Day6 11PM  7/21/2005 7:18:04 PM  Wash before Day6 ride  7/21/2005 7:00:01 PM  Midnight on the Alaska Hwy nearing the end of Day6

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