Preparation We started the day with a bowls of cereal. I had drip coffee and Arlene had espresso made with her Nespresso machine. Then we followed the end of stage 8 of the Tour de Suisse which was an individual time trial. (There is a website, https://www.procyclingstats.com/, which has pretty good webby-coverage of all of…
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We Have Seen the Mountain
Buses In Denali National Park and Preserve there is a single main road that is roughly 92 miles long going from the entrance of the park on Highway 3 to Kantishna. The first 15 miles is paved and goes out to Savage River which is as far into the park as private vehicles are allowed…
Little Dudes
Mount Healy Yesterday we hiked partway up Mount Healy. We gained about 1000 feet in the 2 miles then another 1200 in next 1.4 miles. Honestly, we’re pretty fit and the hardest part on the way up was the heat. Electrolytes are cool. The descent was brutal. Not quite used to all that eccentric motion.…
Long day in the car
Coffee After checking out of the motel we went for coffee at Blue Moose in Hope. In the display case were many tasty-looking baked items such as a spinach feta thingy with a nice checkered pattern and Arlene had her eye on a fruity scone of some sort. We’d already had breakfast so we didn’t…
So it begins
On the ferry We started our journey to Alaska today. We began by packing up the car and riding the ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle. This is us sitting on the back bumper of the car with the hatch open on the ferry. Bellingham We stopped for lunch in Bellingham and went to The…