Day 5,

We said goodbye to our new brother from Texas Tom this morning and headed north on the Cassiar  Highway. Had a great night camp under the stars again. Our 4th time with no tent.

Camp under the stars

Our new brother Tom

 

We re heading to Hyder, Alaska this morning. It is the southern most point you can reach in Alaska by road. You cross the border at British Colombia and Alaska then you turn around and drive out. There is a small town called Stewart, BC that you cross begore Hyder.

We asked the gal at the border patrol where to eat in Stewart as there is not much. She said the Mexican restaurant for sure.

We did and the waiter was a guy that suggested we go back to Hyder and ride up to the Salomon Glacier. It is the 2nd largest glacier in the Northern hemisphere. 

So we did and headed back across the border. Man what a great tip. we climbed from sea level to over 3000 feet. It was about 35 miles of dirt dry dusty sharp rock to get there but man it was worth the time. 

Had to tip the bottle Spencer Clark sent with me, this ones for you brother.

The drive up was absolutely beautiful.

We pushed the pegs up and throttled back down the road. 

We headed north on the Cassier Hwy. Didn't know where we lay our head down just went till we were tired.

Check out our buddy Yogi that came out to say hello.

Rolled right by him and then he poised for Boyd. How can you love this stuff?

Found a camp by this lake and dropped camp. After a great dinner of freeze dried food and a few Crown Royals to chock it down we crashed after about 11 hours on the bike.

Yes I dropped my bike

Boyd are you supposed to be on the bridge?

Well let's see what tomorrow brings.

 Day 4.

We headed out of McLeese Lake this morning headed to the Cassiar Hwy. It was over 400 miles until we decided to stop and a private campground at Kiwanga.  

We stopped in a little town and saw an Ice cream cart. We ordered up and met our new biker buddy Dante.

He was eating an ice cream cone and his ice cream was called Super Hero. By the time we got done with a visit with him and his grandma he is now ready to get his own bike. Love this little guy.

We headed out and it is once again very hot for here. Running about 92 to 97 degrees and extremely dry.

We hit some absolutely beautiful mountain ranges and tomorrow we will start riding up into them.

Boyd is in the lead and a bird explodes off the front of his bike. I am behind with my face mask up. All of a sudden a cloud of feathers ends up in my face, my nose and in my mouth. THANK YOU BOYD.

We had to check out the Gitwangak battle grounds. Pretty damn cool

Well you can see our camp for the night. Took cold showers with their garden hose. I always like doing that as it gives the camp ground a free show.

Well lets see what tomorrow brings

 Day 3

After a great nights sleep under the stars we headed out. Pegs up about 7AM.

We headed into Peachland to look for a Diner for breakfast. To our surprise all we found as high dollar coffee joints. Not one old style restaurant. So we said Screw it!

We set our sites on heading to Merritt about 80 miles away. We were running low on fuel as we got distracted looking for a restaurant. Boyd about 50 miles into says "Hey Dave, how's your fuel?"

I look at it and say "WELL CRAP!!!" We are running with 3 full liters bottles of fuel. So we decide that we will probably make it. A short distance later we see a fuel sign. We are in the middle of nowhere. We turn off and about 2 miles into the forest there is a gas station and store. WTH, the odds in that.

Boyd goes into the store as the credit card reader won't take is card. I don't know he went in. We have communications in our helmet's to talk to each other. He goes in and says "Why won't my pump work?" Well he is asking the gal in side. 

I say "I don't know. Try it again." He says "What?"

I repeat what I said and he says "Hey Dave can I have one conversation at a time?"

I say "well you asked me buddy". 

He says "no I asked Her"

"Who's her?" I ask then i see he is nowhere in sight. He comes out  and says "Well that was entertaining!"

As we head out Boyd is  in the lead. I see two deer about to jump in front of him. I yell in the mic "Deer on your right!" He locks down and just misses both of them.

WE go 100 yards and he yells "THERE IS A BEAR IN THE ROAD." This huge black bear runs across the road at full speed. Boyd says, "Damn that sucker shocked the hell out of me"

It was awesome. 

On this deserted road we had to slow down to a crawl for wild horses in the road. Then I was leading and told Boyd "Something is around this curve coming up. I just saw a butt."

These big horn sheep came out all over us. The babies were the best. We fired up the bikes and continued west. This canyon was awesome. Hot as heck about95 degrees but we didn't care.

We headed to Spences Bridge nd then made a right heading north.

 

We hit McLees Lake and decided this is to cool not to stay. We pulled into a private owned campground. You are expected to book on line ahead of time. After talking to the very nice camp host gal she gave us a spot on the lake. YEA BABY.

It is about 93 degrees right now at 7PM. We will not be pitching a tent again. Our 3rd night sleeping under the stars.

Nothing like Freeze dried food for dinner. However Boyd has a Corona and I have Crown Royal RYE  can only find it in Canada.

I have also been working on this trip. I represent these guys on Social Media. 

Here are a few of the commercials.

Love this...

Lets see what tomorrow brings 

 

Day 2

We left camp this morning at about 8AM after some great coffee from our coffee bar. Sleeping out under the stars was so great we are doing it again.

We were going to go to Spences Bridge however when we hit Okanagan Lake it was too awesome to keep going. So, at 280 miles we pulled off at a Canadian government camp.

It is a very popular place, and you need to book online months ahead. Well Boyd and I started charming the two women in the check in station. First thing Boyd did was complement one of them on her fingernails. They were done up and they looked fantastic.

Well by the time we got done we got a fantastic place that they had reserved for someone else and was the best spot in the campground. People are supposed to check in by 3pm or contact them to let them know they will be late. These people had not done either, so I walked away and let Boyd do his magic. Well needless to say we got it.

 Boyd went to the spot and I headed 10 miles to town to get him some cold beer.

 

Coffee bar

Border time

Border

We crossed the border with no issues whatsoever. It was an absolute beautiful ride. About 94 degrees all day.

Boyd needed to call home, so I told him to find a spot to pull over. It was an Assembly of God church parking lot. They had a sprinkler going so I soaked my jacket and head do rag. I put them on wet and dripping as we rode, and my body temperature dropped about 20degrees. However, Boyd did not want to get his gear wet, so he was burning up. “I have to teach him!!!”

 When we set camp to sleep under the stars we hit the lake.

I am on vacation, but I never can make my self stop working. We film a couple of  18.21 ManMade social media videos. Then we enjoy the setting and do some swimming.

 Now time to cook up some Freeze dried dinner.

Day 1

We pulled out of my driveway at about 7AM on July 5^th. Boyd left his house at 6:30AM as he lives south of me.

 

We headed east on Hwy20 thru Sisters. It was a comfortable 65 degrees when we left Albany. Three hours later it went to 100 degrees. We did 510 miles today. We rode in 100 to 104 degrees for about 6 hours. We weren’t expecting that.

 

We found a campground in the mountains south of Wenatchee. A Motel 6 or Motel 8 in Wenatchee being summer and Fourth of July weekend was going to be $240.00. This campground with great spring feed running water out of a spigot with bathrooms and camp wood for free was $20. Kind of a no brainer.

 

We saw deer, the first two 4 miles out of Albany and almost ran into Boyd. A nice heard of antelope and a big herd of elk.

 

It is much cooler in the mountains where we are. About 80 degrees and absolutely beautiful. No tent needed tonight.

 

All in all a great first day. Let’s see what tomorrow brings.