Three thirty this morning, that's right, three thirty this morning I was standing outside my motel room with John watching Brian load his bike for the last leg of his Ultimate Coast to Coast Ride. For those that don't know, the Ultimate Coast to Coast is an Ironbutt Association sanctioned ride.
test themselves doing long distance rides against the clock. For
more information, if your interested, go to www.ironbutt.com and it
will explain it all to you.
This picture was taken at 3:30 am, no flash.
Brian plans on making Deadhorse today while we head to Glennallen. We plan to meet Monday
in Talkeetna, AK where we will meet up again and continue the ride.
On Sunday the rest of us are headed to Valdez, which will be a short
ride, but we plan to take all day doing it. The road from Glenallen
is suppose to be one of the most, if not the most scenic road in
Alaska.
Today we just plan on making it from Tok to
Glennallen, which is about 140 miles. We wanted a couple of slow
days to be able to rest up a bit. The roads in Canada beat us to
death, and we just want to kick back a while.
We had a good breakfast in Tok before
heading out. The highway between Tok and Glenallen is called the
Richardson Highway. In my previous two trips to Alaska, I have never
taken this highway, so this was new territory for me. The road is
fairly scenic. We kept a slow pace while looking at all the snow
capped mountains. We made several stops, one at a way station where
we had some oatmeal cookies that were fresh out of the oven.
At least I had a V8.
We arrived in Glennallen around 1:30 pm
local time. We went to the motel and found out our room would not be
ready for about an hour. That wasn't a big deal since we planned on
grabbing some lunch .
We decided to eat at the Caribou
Restaurant. The food wasn't bad, but the food prices were extremely
high. This is probably the most expensive restaurant we have eaten
at so far. After lunch we checked into the motel, and just chilled
out. We were suppose to have Internet, but that doesn't look like
its going to work out, so there is no telling when this post will be
uploaded.
We received a call from Brian around
7:00 pm finding out that he had reached Deadhorse. He seems to be
having some bike problems, so lets hope it turns out to be a minor
issue. His plans are to return to Fairbanks tomorrow, and see the
local dealer on Monday. Our plans are still to head down to Valdez
and then return to Glennallen for the night, and then head to
Talkeetna via Anchorage on Monday.
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