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2月 - 12月 2024

This year's goals are:
- To complete the Grand Tour of Texas, PNW Grand Tour & H-D's 10 Rides for 2024;
- To win the H-D Dealership Challenge!
- Do well on Tour of Honor and Ride To Eat; and
- To finish H-D's 50 Rides, 1 Nation.
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- 2024年6月19日水曜日 4:10
- ☁️ 45 °F
- 海抜: 10 フィート
- アメリカ Valdez 61.125681, -146.35144461°7’32” N 146°21’5” W
Land of the Midnight Sun
2024年6月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 45 °F
This week's adventure is without the motorcycle, but with amazing scenery! Monday night we landed in Anchorage, Alaska! We're here for the Last Frontier HOG Rally.

We arrived at midnight, but at this time of year this far north there was still plenty of sunlight. After a quick shuttle to the hotel, we crashed hard and woke up early.

Reindeer sausage was a must for breakfast at the White Spot Cafe, a delicious local's place, then we picked up the rental car at 08:00, drove back to the hotel to grab our gear, and headed out of town.

We took Highway 1 northeast through Palmer, then turned eastward to follow the Matanuska River. We stopped several times to enjoy the stunning views, most notably of Matanuska Glacier.

At Glennallen, around 13:00, we topped off the tank and had lunch. 87 octane gas was $4.59 a gallon and two burgers and fries at the only place to eat were $57 😳.

We turned south on Highway 4 and 85 miles later I was getting my picture taken in Thompson Pass. Harley has a challenge called "50 Rides, 1 Nation." Each state has a particular place where you take your photo with the HD magazine or guide. This was my 50th photo!!!! Mission accomplished!!!!

The scenery on Highway 4 is unlike any I've seen before. Although the highest elevation is only 2,678 and the temperature was around 55°F, there was snow on mountains cradling glaciers. Yet everything was so very green. The river was a living turbulence with its silty runoff racing down from the peaks. The waterfalls ranged from trickles to torrents, and those were the ones visible from the road. Just gorgeous!

We settled into our hotel in Valdez on the coast, then walked a very short ways down the marina, mainly filled with fishing and sight-seeing vessels. We had a delicious dinner at a Thai food truck, then walked across the street back to the marina where they were cleaning fish under the watchful gaze of bald eagles, seagulls, and crows. Bald eagles win 🤣.

This morning, we're driving north to Fairbanks. It's only just after 05:00 now, but the sun is already up 😭. I wonder what sights today will bring....もっと詳しく
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旅行者I'm so jealous. Enjoy!
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- 2024年6月19日水曜日 16:34
- ☁️ 72 °F
- 海抜: 456 フィート
- アメリカ Graehl 64.859646, -147.70190264°51’35” N 147°42’7” W
We Saw Moose!!
2024年6月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
😱😱😱 We saw a cow moose with two calves this morning 😱😱😱!!!! Luckily they were on the side of the road and didn't try to cross in front of us or the oncoming trike. They were what I really wanted to see in the wild, and they were just gorgeous 🥰.

We left Valdez about 07:00 and forced ourselves to drive past all the beautiful waterfalls we saw coming into town. We filled up the gas tank at Glennallen where we stopped yesterday, then continued northwards on Highway 4.

Just north of Paxson, we grabbed a quick photo of the Richardson Monument, erected 1932 in honor of US Army Brig Gen Wilds Preston Richardson, Alaska's pioneer road builder. The sign nearby detailed several women from the Gold Rush days.

No long after, we stopped again to see the Alaskan Pipeline up close. We'd seen it numerous times paralleling the road, particularly heading south to Valdez where it terminates, but touching it was pretty cool.

Around noon we stopped at a gas station for a quick bite in Denali Junction and grabbed a photo with the Alaskan state bird 😉 at the visitor center. The mosquitoes are monsters and are everywhere 🤣. Denali Junction is also where the End of the Alaska Highway Monument usually sits, but it's being rebuilt and not available for photos. The sign had to suffice.

From there it was straight to the North Pole, where we visited Santa Claus House and had Santa send some.letters to our loved ones. I sent my brother and sister-in-law each one square-inch of property in North Pole, Alaska, but at least their one inches are right next to each other 🤣.

After a stop at Far North Harley-Davidson, we've made it to 75°F Fairbanks and are chilling in our hotel room with air conditioning 👍. Great day!!!もっと詳しく
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旅行者I got to see moose in Newfoundland. There are alot bigger seeing them in person.
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- 2024年6月21日金曜日 5:18
- ☀️ 50 °F
- 海抜: 256 フィート
- アメリカ Palmer 61.601196, -149.11494461°36’4” N 149°6’54” W
Last Frontier HOG Rally
2024年6月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 50 °F
Yesterday was another great day. We stopped at the Mount McKinley Harley t-shirt shop in Denali Park, grabbed my third photo for the 10 Rides for 2024 challenge at Igloo City, and saw another moose. The only disappointment was that we couldn't see Mt. Denali because of the clouds.

Arriving in Wasilla, AK, we stopped at Denali HD to pick up our Last Frontier HOG Rally registration packets, then checked into the hotel. After a little rest, we went back to HD for the open ceremony and dinner. I saw perhaps a dozen or so people I know from other events, most of which rode their bikes up from the lower 48. So cool.

We both crashed early last night; we're still on Eastern time. By the time we get acclimated, we'll go back to Kentucky 🤣😞. But we're looking forward to meeting up with two specific friends today and trying to see the mountain again tonight 🤞🤞🤞.もっと詳しく
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- 2024年6月21日金曜日 23:00
- ☀️ 61 °F
- 海抜: 253 フィート
- アメリカ Palmer 61.601192, -149.11513961°36’4” N 149°6’55” W
Flattop Mountain
2024年6月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
Friday the 21st was an amazing day. We spent most of it walking, climbing, sliding, and scrambling our way up and down Flattop Mountain in Chugach State Park to the East of Anchorage. It's not very high--only 3,510 feet and you don't start from the bottom--but it's a superb and challenging trek that rewards you with stunning panoramic views of the city, Turnagain Arm, and the neighboring Chugach Mountains.

We didn't get back to the hotel until about 1530, so we had a late lunch, took a nap, then cleaned up for the evening.

We met up with some of the rally attendees at the Tug Bar, where we had an all you can eat taco bar dinner and hung out with one of the friends I was looking for. Other than seeing her, we were really there to follow a group ride to a Mt. Denali viewpoint. Unfortunately, strike 2 happened. Our second attempt to spot the highest mountain in North America was thwarted by heavy rain. The ride coordinator called it off for safety, and I don't blame him. Just a couple miles down the road, a pickup had hit and killed a moose 😳. So we just came back to the hotel. At 2230 at night. In daylight 🤦.もっと詳しく
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- 2024年6月22日土曜日 23:00
- ☀️ 66 °F
- 海抜: 253 フィート
- アメリカ Palmer 61.601024, -149.1151561°36’4” N 149°6’55” W
We Saw Mt. Denali!
2024年6月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
This morning was looking pretty clear, so we decided to try a third time to see the mountain. Success!! We finally got a glimpse of it from the overlook of Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge. Yay!!

On our way back to Palmer, we stopped for Ice cream at THE place to stop. Luckily there weren't any tour buses there at the time. I got a waffle cone with half a scoop of blackberry on top of half a scoop of huckleberry. OMG 😋😋😋!! I also got my picture taken 🤣.

We took a well deserved break the rest of the day since there was nothing going on with the rally. Hanging at the hotel with a comfortable companion is a reward unto itself 🥰.もっと詳しく
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- 2024年6月23日日曜日 17:00
- ☀️ 73 °F
- 海抜: 108 フィート
- アメリカ Quyana Park 61.219799, -149.8820161°13’11” N 149°52’55” W
Last Day of Last Frontier
2024年6月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Today was the rally wrap-up, which meant we had to leave Palmer. It started this morning at Denali HD for a hotcake, egg, and sausage breakfast. Around 1130 we followed a group of bikes to the Tug Bar, where our hosts gave away some door prizes and pulled the winning 50/50 ticket for over $600...which wasn't us. We didn't win the rally knife or a banner either 😭. Oh well.

We had a great BBQ meal--there's an awful lot of BBQ up here--but took the pineapple upside down cake to the hotel in Anchorage. Even though it's our last night in Alaska, I'm going to sleep because I'm exhausted.もっと詳しく
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- 2024年6月24日月曜日 20:30
- ☀️ 63 °F
- 海抜: 98 フィート
- アメリカ Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport 61.172645, -149.9843561°10’22” N 149°59’4” W
Back Down to the Lower 48
2024年6月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
We got up this morning and walked a block over to the White Spot Cafe, which we found our first morning here in Anchorage. I had a huge and delicious reindeer sausage hash covered with sausage gravy and top with two eggs, plus two slices of toast with apple butter on the side 😋.

After we rolled out of that great little place, we took a drive down Turnagain Arm to try to catch a glimpse of the Beluga whales. No sightings, but it was a glorious day to spend in the sun on the coast.

Back in the city, a short walk took us around Earthquake Park. To summarize, on Good Friday, 27 March 1964, a 9.2 earthquake began 80 miles east of Anchorage and lasted over 4 minutes displacing over 100,000 square miles of land and seabed.

One of the signs in the park said the Lake Hood Seaplane Base had the most float plane take offs and landings in the nation. Since it was literally across the street, we took a short self-guided tour of the lake and watched several planes come and go in a matter of just a few minutes. Cool.

After that we had to turn in the rental car. We walked the couple of blocks back to the hotel where we had left our bags, then caught the shuttle to the airport.

We just finished a late dinner and ate getting ready to board our flight back down to the Lower 48.

Alaska is truly the Last Frontier, and despite not having a motorcycle for the rally, I'm very glad we came up here. Maybe next time I'll ride up 🤣🤔.

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I’ll hold you to that comment about next time riding your H/D up to the Circle! If my health continues to improve and surgery on my hips is successful…I might just ride with you!🛴. I’ve got Canuck friends all over east and west B.C. Vancouver City, and Victoria on Vancouver Island. And a damn good friend in Bellingham WA. who you need to meet. He’s a local and was my Muse when I moved up to the Pacific NW in 2011 [Traveler]
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- 2024年6月27日木曜日 5:41
- 🌙 61 °F
- 海抜: 801 フィート
- アメリカ Covington Reservoirs 39.071581, -84.45168639°4’18” N 84°27’6” W
And She's Off!
2024年6月27日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 61 °F
Luci and I are rolling again today heading for the Pacific Northwest...the squiggly way 🤣. Wish me luck!
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- 2024年6月27日木曜日 22:51
- ☁️ 61 °F
- 海抜: 876 フィート
- アメリカ Novi 42.473405, -83.43321742°28’24” N 83°25’60” W
Day 1, Round 2: KY to MI
2024年6月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 61 °F
Today was very successful! I left the house in foggy but otherwise great weather at 0600 and rode until 2200 making 771.8 miles today. There were so many dealerships and Tour of Honor stops that I lost count, but all were where the GPS said they were, which doesn't always happen.

My only frustration was that seemingly every road in Indiana and Michigan is either under construction or completely closed. I had one detour that even took me down a very loose gravel road with a 90° turn onto even worse gravel. Luckily it wasn't more than a mile. Luci got the job done though.

Now I'm camped behind my last dealership stop. I'm tired but my internal clock is still on Alaska time, so I'm also awake 🤦.

I'm planning for 750+ again tomorrow, but I have a lot of Detroit traffic to contend with in the morning. Wish me luck 🤞!

Today's mileage: 771.8もっと詳しく
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- 2024年6月28日金曜日 23:59
- ☁️ 63 °F
- 海抜: 932 フィート
- アメリカ Soldier Lake 46.351042, -84.8700646°21’4” N 84°52’12” W
Day 2: Rain and More Rain
2024年6月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F
Welcome to the Great Lakes where it either rains or snows. I'll take the rain, but man, did I get soaked today. Rain all day long 😞. Still am soaked, actually, and will still be in the morning because another wave (almost literally) will hit me just when I'm packing up camp 🤬.

Anyway, another successful day. Lots of pics despite lots of traffic, construction, and rain.

Beautiful sunrise bouncing off the clouds when I left at 0600.

Better yet, I had a beautiful view of the morning sun over the St Clair River with Canada in the background and a passing cargo ship 😁.

But best of all was that I got my sixth stop of the nine for Lap of the 48! Only Minnesota, Washington, and Maine to go!

I'm beat. Out.

Miles: 841.3

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