Rachel's C90 Adventures from Alaska to Argentina – Life in the fun lane!
We stopped off for lunch at a place in Ninilchik, Ed hadn’t eaten all day and I was due for my next feed. We didn’t really have that far to go so we took our time, we weren’t in any rush, as usual. We finally finished up and went outside, where we got chatting to…
As soon as we got on to the coast road, the wind was ridiculous. We were getting blown all over the place. Couple that with not actually being able to see, and I started to think ‘Hmm, this is actually quite dangerous!’ And if it went seriously wrong, there were only two options; into…
We rode back to Motoquest to say hello and pick up our post, when we spotted Mark again. Chrissy from Motoquest had kindly offered us a place to stay, so as Mark knew where she lived, he provided an escort. It was so nice to have a house to stay in, to recoup and relax…
We got dropped off at the Wilderness Access Centre around 7pm, where we were thankfully reunited with our bikes, and our freedom. What I still didn’t have, however, were lights. With the sun due to set soon, Ed set about finding the problem, while I set about making us dinner. Bellies full and lights…
We woke up late at Billies; the cool hostel we’d decided to return to after having enjoyed such a lovely stay before. We had a day of catching up with internet related stuff and soon decided to stay another night as we’d never be ready to leave before midnight! Billie kindly did us a deal…
We made a quicker getaway than usual due to a rather wet mosquito munching morning. We’ve discovered two things that speed us up while outside the tent; Rain and mosquitoes. Once combined they speed us up quite considerably! As the bugs were having me for breakfast I decided not to hang around for mine so…
The time had finally come to leave. We’d said ‘tomorrow’ so many times that it suddenly went past being a joke and we thought “we really do need to go!” We woke up a bit earlier than usual but not by much. Sifting through the bomb site of our tent we finished packing the bikes…
Sooo we’re still in Anchorage! Fairly predictable considering our usual pace for getting stuff done. Every day for the past week we’ve been saying “tomorrow, we’re leaving tomorrow” but alas, nearly two weeks later and we’re still here. It was a joke before we got here that we would never leave Alaska, now it’s become…
After god knows how many hours of constant daylight we arrived in Anchorage, Alaska. We left the airport in search of a taxi but jumped on the bus instead to save money. We were amused to discover that firstly the driver didn’t have any change and secondly he was surprised that we…
