Dee's Motorcycle trip to Alaska

I am off to Alaska on another motorcycle trip. I am going with a pastor friend from Washington named Glen Douglas. I went by myself last year as I toured the lower 48 States but there is very little cell phone service on this trip and I thought it would be safer to have someone with me in case my bike had problems.

We will be riding a total of 6000 miles in 24 days. Last year my total trip was 12000 miles so this one is much easier in terms of miles ridden. We will be heading for Fairbanks, Alaska where my daughter Shelly, her husband Philip and my two grand kids live. We will stay with them for two nights and then head to Anchorage and stay one night with Jay and Marsia Goold, good friends who used to live in Jefferson and attend JBC. Then we will be off to Soldotna where we will stay with a friend who has a cabin there. We will fish on the Kenai river for about 4 days. My friend, Chick Fisher drove up in May in a pickup and will be driving back here in the Fall, and he said he would can my salmon for me and bring it back with him when he came. I plan on catching a lot of sockeye salmon.

When we get done fishing we will head home. I plan on being home on the 22nd of July. I am going to try to stay in campgrounds that have WiFi so I should be able to do some blogging every night of our days adventures. We are taking all of our camping stuff with us on our bikes. I will be eating 10 grain cereal in the morning and freeze dried dinners at night. Just heat water. My kind of cooking. For lunch I will pick up whatever at service stations when we get gas. You know, health food like black licorice and snickers candy bars.

The big challenge will be making sure we don't run out of gas. Gas stations are farther apart on this trip, and motorcycles don't have very big gas tanks. Mine is 3.7 gallons and I get about 47 miles to the gallon. 170 miles per tank. My goal is to fill up every 100 miles. I am carrying 2 gallons of gas just in case. The other challenge will be not hitting any wildlife. Patty and I drove this same route in our car last summer and saw lots of deer, elk, caribou, buffalo, bears, and goats right in the middle of the road acting like we were trespassing. I am thinking it will hurt if I hit any of them. With the bear it will probably hurt twice.

Well, I hope you have as much fun reading the blog of our trip as I will have writing it. Love ya all. Dee