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Alaska 2008 Ride Report
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Day 17: North to Alaska
June 28, 2008 - Destruction Bay to Watson Lake
Walked out of the hotel room this morning, cold and windy, but sunny. Look down the road the way I'm headed, socked in with rain clouds. Uh oh. Put everything on. In case you're wondering what 'everything' is, 4 layers of pants; jeans, the overpants with the liner in, and then rain pants over that. Up top; t-shirt, flannel shirt, electric vest, sweatshirt, jacket with liner in. A little warm at first but after 30 minutes in the rain I was glad I had every bit of it on. :) Overall it was kind of similar to yesterday, some construction, lots of rain and wind. Colder. Did get an earlier start though, which helped.
Big highlight was grizzlies. Two of them right next to the road, maybe 25-30 feet off. There were 7-8 cars/RVs already stopped so I pulled up behind them and got a couple of decent pics. They were going to town eating grass, paying all the humans no mind.
Saw a badger too, although I couldn't get a shot of it. At least I think it was a badger, reminded me of Mike Ditka though so I'm pretty sure. :)
Got into Watson Lake and stayed at the Big Horn, same place as last week.
Eating dinner at the restaurant lounge, start talking to a couple of older local guys at the next table, ended up hanging out with them for a while.
Interesting guys. Well, one was, the other was a walking billboard for the effects of long-term pot smoking. Elevator didn't quite make it to the top floor. :) Talked about bikes, long haul trucking, traveling in Mexico, life in the Yukon, bears, whatnot. Good time.
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