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    T-minus 3.6 days and counting . . .

    T-minus 3.6 days and counting . . .

    Could time move any slower this week?

    Anyway, I am leaving on my Valkyrie Saturday (in the wee hours . . . kind-of O-dark-thirty time) for thirty-one days on the road. My ultimate destination is Alaska, though I am starting out in the wrong direction so I can buy dinner for a good friend (heck, it's only 600 miles extra!)

    For those interested (many have asked believe it or not!), I will be trying to update my website with stories/logs and pictures from the road, as time and internet access permit. I will also try to post links to new updates here if I can.

    So anyway, bookmark this page if you want to follow any updates I manage to get through, but please understand I intend on traveling to some sparce areas and the internet will not be my focus for this trip:

    http://lifeisaroad.com/alaska.htm

    Or you can just go to http://lifeisaroad.com and click the "Alaska 2004" link on the bottom left.

    T-minus 3.5 days and counting . . .

    CUAgain,
    Daniel Meyer
    Author. Adventurer. Electrician.
    Find out why...It's About the Ride.
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    Be safe and good luck. Were all counting on you fullfilling our fantasies for us.
    When you get there you have to catch at least 1 salmon.
    79 XS1100F "JINGUS"
    07 V-star 1100
    Do you want it done right or do you want me to do it?

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    • #3
      ...and keep the rubber side down!

      I hope you got a decent non-square rear tire....
      I don't like those things on bikes.
      Anyway, keep up updated and drooled.

      LP
      If it doesn't have an engine, it's not a sport, it's only a game.
      (stole that one from I-dont-know-who)

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      • #4
        Sounds like an awesome trip! I'm doing a "simple" loop July 5-11 from here out to Rocky Mtn. Nat'l Park, north to Rushmore/Sturgis, east to the annual Y-Triples North Central Rally in Wisconsin, then south back home ("only" 2600 miles over 7 days). I can't wait!! This is kind of the trip I promised myself I would do in Curt Marsh's memory after buying his "other" 1100 (not his good one...the basket case in his shed).

        Ride safe...and watch out for idiots around KC on your way north, especially that fool on his ratty ol' H.
        Tom Hunt
        Lawrence, KS

        1981 XS1100H
        1998 Concours, 1984 PE175, 1974 GTMX

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        • #5
          Good luck on the trip Dan, I truely wish you well. I wish I had known late last year when I had to make up this years schedule and I could have tagged along a way with you. Alaska is still on my list. Maybe next year we can ride to Hawaii??

          I look forward to your reports, it will help me to formulate my trip someday.

          What kind of miles you looking at for this trip?
          Gary Granger
          Remember, we are the caretakers of mechanical art.
          2013 Suzuki DR650SE, 2009 Kawasaki Concours 1400, 2003 Aprilia RSV Mille Tuono

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          • #6
            Has anybody else checked in at Dan's webpage? He has made it to Alaska, but let's just say he didn't do it the easy way.......
            Ken Talbot

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            • #7
              Alaska

              Yes I have been following it. Some neat stories of incidents on the road. I think Dan's mind can be very creative on some of those long stretches in the saddle. At the moment it looks like he is trapped in Fairbanks waiting for the forest fire season to end. He may not make it home till Sept. From the news reports it is a very serious situation up there. Maybe he should go on and take a cruise ship back to Vancouver/Victoria/Seattle. Tee Hee
              Keep on trucking Daniel, your trip is only 1/2 over. Can't imagine pushing on through a 1000 miles of smoke.
              only to turn around and ride back through it for another 1000 or more.
              Ken/Sooke

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              • #8
                Wow

                Looks like Dan's trip has been very eventfull so far. I liked the story about the little old lady. I probably would have done the same thing or close to it. I wish I had the time to check out Alaska , looks like a cool place. Well Dan, I wish you luck on the rest of your trip. Thanks for the updates. Keep em comming.
                S.R.Czekus

                1-Project SG (Ugly Rat Bike)(URB)
                1-big XS patch
                1-small XS/XJ patch
                1-XS/XJ owners pin.
                1-really cool XS/XJ owners sticker on my helmet.
                2-2005 XS rally T-shirts, (Bean Blossom, In)
                1-XVS1300C Yamaha Stryker Custom (Mosquito)
                1-VN900C Kawasaki Custom (Jelly Bean)

                Just do it !!!!!

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                • #9
                  Daniel Resurfaces

                  After Dan checked into that smoke filled hotel in Fairbanks we did not hear anymore from him. I was getting worried, 3/4 days and no posting from Dan. I was thinking that he got way laid Or something.
                  Well he just put up an update. He is in Bozeman Mont. Only about 2000 miles south of his last post. I guess that long spring that stretches between himself and his wife in Texas is about to snap him home.
                  Pretty impressive shot of running on gravel at 75 per on a bike that likely goes 850 with the load it is carrying plus Dan's 300 lbs.
                  I would think that after all of those hours he has spent in the saddle over the last couple of weeks that he is complete control of that big Honda.
                  Truck on Dan, the Misses is calling.
                  Ken/Sooke

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                  • #10
                    (snip) from Ken
                    I guess that long spring that stretches between himself and his wife in Texas is about to snap him home.
                    (endsnip)

                    Heh heh....you are very perceptive Ken....
                    CUAgain,
                    Daniel Meyer
                    Author. Adventurer. Electrician.
                    Find out why...It's About the Ride.

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                    • #11
                      Home Safe!

                      Not really perception Daniel. I have the same spring. A week, 10 days out and if I try and go in any direction besides home it starts to draw pretty tight and yanks me home.
                      Congratulations on a safe, successful ride. You Texans are always bragging about the size of Texas. A lot of the rest of us know better. The North West is HUGE. We can also ride for many many miles without having to worry about traffic. Just wildlife that is so unpredictable. (as you now know)
                      Rest up and get the Dragon cleaned up.
                      Ken/Sooke

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