Bow Tie Tour » Day 21 http://bowtietour.com Alaska and back again, our motorcycle tales Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:38:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Day 21 – Whitehorse to Fairbanks http://bowtietour.com/2007/08/day-21-whitehorse-to-fairbanks/ http://bowtietour.com/2007/08/day-21-whitehorse-to-fairbanks/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:44:10 +0000 admin http://bowtietour.com/blog/?p=48 I got up early and headed out to get my tire changed. It took some doing because apparently they don’t stock sport bike tires in the middle of the Yukon :-) who would have thought? I eventually found one and we were off. It was a great day and we made good time.

Along the road we saw mamma grizzly and her cub, we stayed out distance and watched as they ripped rotten logs to shreds.

grizzlies

And then there it was. Alaska! As Jason said, “The only state still wild and free” and to back up his statement he proceeded to ride accross the border “Wild and free” wearing only his helmet. :-) It was a sight to behold.
naked crossing

Here we are at the entrance to the last remaining frontier. ALASKA!

sing

The sun was slowly going down but up in Alaska that can take several hours so we decided to push through to Fairbanks.
Stopping of course to see the sights, such as…
buffalo
as well as the North pole, Santa’s workshop and a Pizza Hut.

north pole

The North Pole (home of St. Nick)

We spent the night with Jason in his tent. Incidentally he had lost his first tent the day before we met him which is why he stayed at the Air Force lodge and why he rode ahead to Whitehorse, so he could get another one.

It rained during the night and that was just a foreshadowing of the deluge to come.

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