Rachel's C90 Adventures from Alaska to Argentina – Life in the fun lane!
Day 11 Sun 16th Aug After a breakfast of homemade rolls and jam, we said goodbye to Dale, Liz and Owen and got off on our way. We rode back to Marvell and got back on to the trail, and as promised the dust began. It wasn’t anywhere near as deep as Dale had warned…
Day 10 Sat 15th Aug It was when I was having my cold shower in the morning after being cooked out of the tent that I was thankful for the relocation, although I wasn’t too thankful of being woken up at the time. Despite being tired we soon felt better as we…
Day 9 Friday 14th Aug Well we didn’t get very far today, in fact we only did about 45 miles in the wrong direction so Ed could go ‘walking in Memphis’! We had a late start due to a late night, as we couldn’t find anywhere to camp. Everywhere had posted and private property signs,…
Day 1 – Thursday 6th August Well it was a fun and relatively easy start to the T.A.T., despite my bike spewing out all of it’s oil as we stopped in Tellico Plains for fuel. Ed had just pulled up to chat to some other TAT riders, and as I leant my…
We had a big day ahead of us to get to our friend Mike’s house in Connecticut in a day, 200 miles to be precise. And although we had the best intentions to leave early, I got distracted with making my bike lighter by throwing out some stuff. I’d been carrying around quite a substantial…
Being Independence day, or Treason Day as Ed likes to call it, we thought that it would be fun to spend the night at a proper campsite with entertainment and fireworks. We stopped at a couple of campgrounds but no-one was willing to do us a deal, and after being spoken to quite rudely by…
The following day was spent roasting in the sun, chatting to lots of random people who were intrigued by the bikes, and fixing Ed’s piston. He soon discovered that his piston really wasn’t in good shape, and that where the rings had been slapping around they’d scored a groove in the side. …
It was weird leaving Canada, after over 8 months in the country it felt strange going somewhere else. We were both looking forward to a change though as Canada had become so familiar to us, we were looking forward to a change of scenery and something new. The people had been absolutely wonderful though, and…
Tuesday 24th February – Thursday 26th February I woke up early to finish putting my bike back together; I pushed the seal back in, put the cam chain and sprocket back on, then called Ed in to help me re-position the carb and air filter. This should have been a fairly easy task, however where…
Sun 22nd February – Monday 23rd February When I woke up on Sunday morning, I didn’t expect to be ticking two things off my ‘Things to do in Canada in Winter list’. After having quite the feast for breakfast with their friends and family, and casually mentioning in conversation that we’d missed our chance to…
