Alaska Day 21

Woke up and saw that it was raining. Crap, that's no way to start a day, but none the less we will still have to hit the road. I heard a bike start and leave around 5:30 am and thought it was another rider that was staying at the motel. Turns out it was Jerry, it appears he decided to leave early for home. Don't know why, but I guess he has his reasons.

All suited up and ready for the rain we pulled out somewhere around 6:45 am. Since it was raining where we were at, and it looked like it might not be in the direction we were going, we decided to go down the road a ways before breakfast. We ended up stopping in a restaurant in Frazier and breakfast turned out to be pretty good. After breakfast we hit the road again for Prince George. Along the way John realized that he didn't have any brake lights. We stopped to check it out, but couldn't find the problem on the side of the road. I think he will be working on that problem later tonight.

We arrived at Prince George and stopped for gas and to say our goodbyes. John and Brian will head east while Dick and myself will head south. Dick and I are going to stay in Williams Lake where I plan to visit a friend. The ride to Williams Lake was not big deal, but we did have a lot of construction. Before arriving we did stop for lunch at McDonalds in some unknown named town.

We arrived in Williams Lake around 3:00 pm and checked into the Lakeside Motel. It is properly named as all you can see is the lake side and not the lake view. If they cut down a few trees, I think the view would be fantastic.

Dick and I plan on crossing into the lower 48 tomorrow. My front tire has gone to crap so I contacted a dealer in Spokane, Washington to arrange to get a new tire. Turns out the news was not as bad as I expected. I really expected to get raped by buying a tire on the road, as I have in the past, but the tire price is a bit higher than I would pay at home, the mounting and balancing of the tire is free. Dick and I will remove the tire from the bike, and I have spoken to the service manager, who stated that he will mount the tire right a way. If everything goes right we should be there more than an hour.

Dick and I started planning our route back home. We plan to keep to the back roads as much as possible. I looking forward to getting back to the lower 48, where brewed ice tea can be found everywhere.