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Rancheria to Boya to Dease Lake

8/8 First real day of a tail wind.  Felt amazing.  100 k in 5 hours.  Landed in Nugget city.  Tried to hitchhike to Watson Lake for supplies and it took an hour and a half to get a lift.  Waited just as long on the way back and ultimately had to get a cab for Read More

The Great Yukon Lodge

*Note: Some of this probably didn’t happen and this place may or may not actually exist My initial impression of the Great Yukon Lodge was that it was maintained with pride despite being a bit tired.  The elements take their toll on any building here.   Foundations shift, roofs are covered with moss, properties fill with Read More

Whitehorse to Rancheria

Just a quick note, I fell a bit behind on postings and have a bit of a backlog.  I will probably post once every few days for the next week or so and then get into a habit of a weekly update.  Sorry for the short term blitzkrieg. A bit high from the hospitality and Read More

Whitehorse

From Xavier’s place we rode about fifty five kilometers to Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon.  Depending on the source, you will be told that somewhere between 35,000 and 40,000 people live in the province.  All but about 5,000 of them live in Whitehorse, which is probably about half the size of Texas.  There are Read More

Welcome to Canada

Sometimes things don’t go as planned.  After Beaver Creek, we saw that there was a Creperie up ahead.  The milepost description was something to the effect of: Pine Valley Bakery & Crepery is a historic Alaska Highway Lodge lovingly resurrected by your hosts Olivier and Mylene, who invite you to enjoy real French pastries and Read More

Last Days of Alaska

On Thursday morning we woke up to a flat mattress.  It was the 19th of July.  This had been going on for the last 10 days or so.  There were close to 10 pathces in it at this point.  It took me an hour to get out of bed.  Our tent was over a small Read More

The Denali Highway

After Denali National Park, our next stretch was The Denali Highway.  This was slated to be the most desolate section yet.  The road runs from Cantwell (about 35 miles south of the park) for 135 miles to Paxson.  Most of it is moderately maintained dirt with a few sections of chip seal and asphalt. We Read More

July Expenses

Here is a summary of our expenses for July.  I won’t post these every month, but perhaps whenever we enter a new place and it seems interesting to do so.  We were significantly above our initial budget, although Alaska and the Yukon are likely to be some of the most expensive places that we go Read More

The Teachings of John Juan

“Ok, you must be Chris.”  He was 30 minutes late, but it didn’t seem to bother him.  “So today we will be doing fish identification.”  Circa 2011 I had ended up working in the Virgin Islands on a government project.  I quit my job in the middle of the design phase and had agreed to Read More

Lessons from Alaska

I’m writing this as our first month on the road – and our time in Alaska – draws to a close. We are currently in Tok, a ‘town’ 90 miles from the Canadian border. Every place we’ve been to over the past four weeks has been so beautiful, it didn’t occur to either of us Read More

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