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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 Shum
2006-08-21 16:58:54

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Robinson…I ride on.
Across the frontera and back in the US,
The ever gorgeous and generous hearted Micah Full Image
AlaskaAlaska at lasta, the border chica tells me I only got 3 months coming in from mexico, bastards! And she can’t give me more…bummer, however, after the cursory questioning…any firearms, drugs, cigarettes, 10,000 dollars, alcohol? ...I wish! And I’m in.

Big mobs of bikes, crikey, a constant stream going the other way and at every stop, several going my way, lots of Goldwings and Harleys with trailers and tons of baggage, the RVs of the bike world, and lots of real travellers on BMWs, I’ve never seen so many BMWs, amazing, and all of us in the brotherhood of bikes, just fantastic camaraderie.
I ride the last leg from Tok to Fairbanks with two new friends, Robert and Micah, 2 up on a 1150, he’s a BMW techo, very handy, we eat Thai and they shout, being my anniversary eve!! He and I drink a few Heinis on the step of the motel, so bizarre, it’s daylight but midnight! They head off in the morning for Prudhoe, I’m still uncertain and decide to have a rest day, it’s been a long haul up from Whistler, but I would really like to meet up with them again, really good people.

Later I call round and see George, another 1150 GS rider, from San Fran, I’d met him on the road yesterday, we are going to head off for Prudhoe tomorrow. We had burgers and beer, he shouted my anniversary as well, fantastic…what have I done to deserve meeting and being treated by such generous and friendly people, I just hope I get the opportunity to reciprocate one day.
Well, the Prudhoe run, Coldfoot, Deadhorse and back, nearly 1,600 kms, already covered in the hastily added blog the night we got back…just so stoked…the same feeling as getting to Ushuia in the far south six months ago. Did I tell you about the party at Coldfoot on the way in?...one of those fantastic impromptu biker gatherings...awesome!!
I’ve been looking at ferry services and reckon I’ll ride down to Haines and catch the ferry to Billingham, just south of the Canadian border, 3 days, then pop back up to Vancouver for the service.
Well you got all that yesterday, now we're back to the present I think....what next I wonder?
Hey, 10pm and still light...back in Vancouver and the pre-blog done...what a bonus for you...2 in one day!!....save it up tho' there might
From the Gondola Full Image
Whistlernot be much for a while until I get the bike sorted...Love you all!!