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Alaska, atlasta...shades of Ushuia, 20+ hours of daylight, my time orientation out of whack, time to eat? cornflakes and milk or steak and red??…looks like 2pm, actually 10pm, sunset is 12.30am, sunrise 3am!…helps to make me realise how much I wouldn’t like to be here at the opposite time of year!
And it’s my anniversary, yes, 25 June 2005 I flew into LA, sometimes it seems like 12 weeks, other times, forever! The bike’s just clicked over 72.000 kms!
RV, RV, POQ and DCB….!
Bill Shum2006-08-21 16:58:54
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everything seems so imediate and clear.... sweet-milky-straw-cowshitty smell of dairy farms, thick and rich, music comes from a milking shed, the livestock Woodstock?..then more curvery, I round a bend and a huge waterfall torrents down just a few metres beside me, I can hear the roar, where does it go? Down in a valley a beaver dam (tick) altho’ I saw my first one in Ushuia where beavers have pest status!
The asphalt is thank you very much...I had not seen a "Start Avalanche" sign!
The scenery is awesome, endless fir trees and birches, dark green cold looking lakes, smooth rounded mountains, bald rock above the tree line, the lower ridges have narrow Mohawk tree lines along the spines, down the sides, swirls and zigzag tree lines like a Pommy-skinhead-soccer-hooligan’s haircut.
Then off and away to Dawson Creek, hmm sounds vaguely familiar? It’s ‘mile 1’ of the Alaska highway. The “Alcan”, sounds sort of tinny?, goes all the way to Fairbanks Alaska, the main route, thru’ fabulous scenery, and it’s a long way!
I’m pondering the fuel figures, I’m not keeping any log, I remember driving to Darwin once and writing religiously all the kms, litres, $ etc and then never looking at it again, what’s the point? Will some future generation, archaeologising this site, find my fuel records of some interest? I doubt it.
The valley opens out, clear blue sky altho’ still chilly, I’m wearing everything I own. This morning I laughed as they gave a sunblock reminder on the weather channel, it was 2 degrees!…the locals are all getting around in t-shirts and shorts, I’m still rugged up! Too long in the tropics?
Everything is so green and lush, along the roadside bright, pretty, purple wild flowers, pretty little yellow light on the dash…whoa, hold on, that’s the low fuel light, she-it, just how far is the next town?..hmmm...what was I saying about keeping
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